Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
Record details
- ISBN: 0735213925
- ISBN: 9780735213920
- Physical Description: 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | 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. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Quantum gravity. |
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