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Reality Is Not What It Seems

By Carlo Rovelli

The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Penguin, 2016.

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Reality Is Not What It Seems

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A wonderfully accessible and often poetic account of humanity’s struggle to understand time and space, based upon observations from ancient Greece to the present day, and what physicists might discover in the future.

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Who should read Reality Is Not What It Seems

Einstein enthusiasts • future astronauts • aspiring scientists • anyone interested in the universe • fans of Stephen Hawking

About the author of Reality Is Not What It Seems

Carlo Rovelli is an Italian physicist who has shifted the field of theoretical physics with his ground-breaking research. Rovelli is the founding father of loop quantum gravity theory, which led Foreign Policy to name him to their top-100 most influential global thinker list in 2019. He also wrote The Order of Time and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.

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