Carlo Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Paperback)

We belong to a short-lived genus or species… All our cousins are already extinct. What’s more, we do damage. Explaining the complex with relatable simplicity to make sense of ideas that seem too big to grasp is the methodology that leading theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli applies to the writing of his slim book, which aims to show ‘those who know little or nothing about modern science’ that musing on the mysteries of the world need not be for the chosen few. First finding life as a series for the culture section of an Italian newspaper, Rovelli’s book initially left Fifty Shades of Grey in the dust on publication in Italy. The lessons cover Einstein’s general theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, the architecture of the cosmos, elementary particles, gravity, the nature of the mind and black holes. One of the founders of loop quantum gravity theory, Rovelli, author of Reality is Not What It Seems, is the director of the quantum gravity group at the Centre de Physique Theorique