by Carlo Rovelli
Rovelli retraces the history of physics from Democritus's atoms through Newton, Faraday, Einstein, and the founders of quantum mechanics to the current frontier of loop quantum gravity. Along the way he argues that space and time are not a fixed stage but emergent, grainy structures woven out of relational quantum events.
In this collection, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity references 4 other books.
It draws on A Brief History of Time, The Trouble with Physics and The Elegant Universe.
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Rovelli's annotated bibliography lists Hawking's A Brief History of Time among the essential popular accounts of the gravity-plus-quantum problem he is trying to solve.
Rovelli cites Lee Smolin's The Trouble with Physics as a companion critique of string theory and a defense of background-independent approaches like loop quantum gravity.
Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe is invoked as the canonical popular exposition of the string-theory alternative to Rovelli's loop approach.
Isaacson's Einstein biography is referenced for the story of general relativity's creation, which Rovelli reanimates as the foundation of his narrative.
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