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

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

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Title remainder

the journey to quantum gravity

Statement of responsibility

Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

Instantiates

• Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity

Publication

• New York, Riverhead Books, 2017

Copyright

• ©2016

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

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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text

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• txt

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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 relational ; But do we really understand? -- Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loops' 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 ; Spinfoams ; What is the world made of? -- Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology -- Empirical confirmations? ; Signs from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity -- Quantum black holes -- The end of infinity -- Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information -- Mystery

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ocn957696600

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22 cm

Edition

First American edition.

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280 pages

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9780735213920

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(hbk)

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2016036293

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• n

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illustrations

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