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  • Published: 6 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241257975
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Reality Is Not What It Seems

The Journey to Quantum Gravity




'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times)

What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, he takes us on a wondrous journey to show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.

  • Published: 6 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241257975
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

About the author

Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland, Reality Is Not What It Seems and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into forty-three languages.

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