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by Carlo Rovelli
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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.
by Carlo Rovelli
Rovelli returns to the windswept island where a 23-year-old Heisenberg invented matrix mechanics in 1925 and uses that scene to defend the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics. He links quantum physics to the Indian philosopher Nagarjuna's doctrine of emptiness to argue that objects exist only in their interactions.
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.