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Author:

Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author.

Title:

Reality is not what it seems : the elementary structure of things / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Riverhead Booksan imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Quantum gravity.

Other Authors:

Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator.
Segre, Erica, translator.

Other Titles:

Realta non e come ci appare. English

Notes:

Originally published in Italian under the title: La Realta non e come ci appare. English translation published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 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.

ISBN:

0735213925 : HRD
9780735213920 : HRD

LCCN:

2016036293

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