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Reality Is Not What It Seems audiobook

  • By: Carlo Rovelli
  • Narrator: Roy McMillan
  • Category: General, Physics, Science
  • Length: 1 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
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Reality Is Not What It Seems Audiobook Summary

“The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they’re calling the next Stephen Hawking.” The Times Magazine

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, Helgoland, and Anaximander, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.

What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions. He tells us how our understanding of reality has changed over the centuries and how physicists think about the structure of the universe today.

In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Democritus to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to gravitational waves, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers deeper explanations of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.

This book culminates in a lucid overview of quantum gravity, the field of research that explores the quantum nature of space and time, seeking to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. Rovelli invites us to imagine a marvelous world where space breaks up into tiny grains, time disappears at the smallest scales, and black holes are waiting to explode—a vast universe still largely undiscovered.

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Reality Is Not What It Seems Full Details

Narrator Roy McMillan
Length 1 hours 53 minutes
Author Carlo Rovelli
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9781524749583

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The publisher of the Reality Is Not What It Seems is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524749583.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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