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Reality is not what it seems : the elementary structure of things  Cover Image Book Book

Reality is not what it seems : the elementary structure of things / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.

Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- (author.). Carnell, Simon, 1962- (translator.). Segre, Erica, (translator.). Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- translation of: Realtà non è come ci appare. English. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780735213920 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.

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General Note:
English translation published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.
Originally published in Italian under the title: La Realtà non è come ci appare.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Grains -- Classics -- Albert -- Quanta -- Spacetime is quantum -- Quanta of space -- Time does not exist -- Beyond the big bang -- Empirical confirmations? -- Quantum black holes -- The end of infinity -- Information -- Mystery.
Subject: Quantum gravity.

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Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is the head of the Quantum Gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille University. He is one of the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory and the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, an international bestseller translated into over forty languages, and the forthcoming The Order of Time. Rovelli lives in Marseille, France.

Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is the head of the Quantum Gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille University. He is one of the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory and the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, an international bestseller translated into over forty languages, and the forthcoming The Order of Time. Rovelli lives in Marseille, France.


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