Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

English language

Published Aug. 9, 2018

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978-0-7352-1393-7
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Italian: La realtà non è come ci appare. La struttura elementare delle cose) is an illustrated book by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. The book discusses quantum gravity. It was first published in Italian in 2014 (before the author's best-seller Seven Brief Lessons on Physics). It was published in English in 2016 by which time the English translation of Seven Brief Lessons had already appeared.

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A history book for all of theoretical physics

Carlo Rovelli has explained all of physics like a story. He starts from the idea of the existence of atoms to quantum physics. He includes all the physicists that worked in their fields and what was their inspiration and goals. I think it's a really great book to understand science, as it explains the works of each generation of physicists, what was missing in their work and how that was fulfilled by the next generation.