Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity
Preferred Shelf Number:
530.143 ROV
First Title value, for Searching:
Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity
First Author value, for Searching:
Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author.
ISBN:
9780735213920
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Realtà non è come ci appare. English
Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Description:
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Translation of: La realtà non è come ci appare.
English translation first published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, in 2016.
Subtitle in pre-publication: The elementary structure of things.
Contents:
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 ; Spinfoams ; 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.
Abstract:
"What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions. He tells us how our understanding of reality has changed over the centuries and how physicists think about the structure of the universe today"--Dust jacket flap.
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