Combo Reality Is Not What It Seems – Seven Brief Lessons On Physics

Combo Reality Is Not What It Seems – Seven Brief Lessons On Physics

‘The physicist transforming how we see the universe’ (Financial Times)

‘An utter joy’ (Adam Rutherford)

‘A hugely engaging Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide’ (Manjit Kumar Prospect)

Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture?

Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed throughout centuries, from Democritus to loop quantum gravity. Taking us on a wondrous journey, he invites us to imagine a whole new world where black holes are waiting to explode, spacetime is made up of grains, and infinity does not exist — a vast universe still largely undiscovered.

Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER

‘There’s a book I’ve been carrying around like a small Bible, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ – Benedict Cumberbatch 

‘With the publication of this million-selling book, Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern theoretical physics’ – Sam Leith, Spectator

Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons 

These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this mind-bending overview of modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein’s theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. Not since Richard Feynman’s celebrated Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed.

Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre