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Seven brief lessons on physics, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

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Seven brief lessons on physics, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

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eng

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illustrations

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non fiction

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Seven brief lessons on physics

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Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

Summary

"Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven brief lessons, Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli guides readers with admirable clarity through the most transformative physics breakthroughs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, explains general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role of humans in the strange world Rovelli describes." --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The most beautiful of theories -- Quanta -- The architecture of the cosmos -- Particles -- Grains of space -- Probability, time, and the heat of black holes -- Ourselves

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adult

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7 brief lessons on physics

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