Reality Is Not What It Seems

from antao

"The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events". In "Reality Is Not What It Seems" by Carlo Rovelli Rovelli is more than right to rail against the schism of art and science. Theoretical physics in some sense is the poetry of science; and science in its great ev...

from datrappert

Rovelli is an amiable guide to some of the most difficult to understand parts of physics, and he does an excellent job of making things a lot clearer. He is also right on target with his condemnation of the Christian Church for setting science back by a thousand years during the Dark Ages. His sp...

from waldhaus1

Clarifying perspectives on physics. Newtonian physics becomes intuitive. Post Einsteinian physics has much hard to integrate into poor experience of the world we encounter. One interesting insight the author offers OSS that it is heat that gives times arrow its direction.

from KimBooSan

a beautifully lyrical book about mind-bending topics.

from michaelbartley

a readable and enjoyable book that explores the world of physics string theory is now it's quantum gravity. reading it is escaping from our world into a new and exciting world