Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First American editionDescription: 254 p. : ill.; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141983219 (pbk); 0735213925 (hbk)Uniform titles: Realtà non è come ci appare. English Subject(s): Quantum gravityDDC classification: 530.14/3 LOC classification: QC6.4 | .R77 2017Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Originally published in Italian under the title: La Realtà non è come ci appare.
English translation published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grains ; Is there a limit to divisibility? ; The nature of things -- The classics ; Isaac and the little moon ; Michael: fields and light -- Albert ; The extended present ; The most beautiful of theories ; Mathematics or physics? ; The cosmos -- Quanta ; Albert again ; Niels, Werner, and Paul ; Fields and particles are the same thing ; Quanta 1: Information is finite ; Quanta 2: Indeterminacy ; Quanta 3: Reality is relation ; But do we really understand? -- Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loop's first steps -- Quanta of space ; Spectra of volume and area ; Atoms of space ; Spin networks -- Time does not exist ; Time is not what we think it is ; The candle chandelier and the pulse ; Spacetime sushi spinfoam ; What is the world made of? -- Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology -- Empirical confirmations? ; Signals from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity -- Quantum black holes -- The end of infinity -- Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information -- Mystery.
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