by Carlo Rovelli
In seven short chapters, physicist Carlo Rovelli traces the twin pillars of twentieth-century physics, Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics, and sketches a path toward their unification through loop quantum gravity. The book ends by asking what place humans occupy in the strange architecture of spacetime, heat, and probability that physics has revealed.
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It draws on A Brief History of Time, Einstein and The Elegant Universe.
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Rovelli devotes his sixth lesson to black hole thermodynamics and Hawking radiation, drawing directly on Stephen Hawking's cosmological work popularized in A Brief History of Time.
The opening lesson is a meditation on Einstein's 'most beautiful' theory of general relativity, retelling the biographical arc covered in Isaacson's Einstein biography.
Rovelli sets loop quantum gravity against string theory, the rival program Brian Greene popularized in The Elegant Universe, as the two leading attempts to unify relativity with quantum mechanics.
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