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Title

Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.

Author

Rovelli, Carlo, 1956-

Publication

• New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
• ©2016

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carnell, Simon, 1962-
• Segre, Erica

Description

280 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Realtà non è come ci appare. English

Alternative Title

Realtà non è come ci appare.

Subject

Quantum gravity

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"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-272) 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? ; Sign from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity -- Quantum black holes -- The end of infinity -- Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information -- Mystery.

Call Number

JFD 17-2479

ISBN

• 9780735213920
• 0735213925

LCCN

2016036293

OCLC

2016036293

Author

Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author.

Title

Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.

Publisher

New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First American edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-272) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator.

Segre, Erica, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-2479