Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity
Title:
Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity
Author:
Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author.
ISBN:
9780735213920
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Uniform Title:
Realtà non è come ci appare. English
Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Description:
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Originally published in Italian under the title: La Realtà non è come ci appare.
"English translation published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Grains ; Is there a limit to divisibility? ; The nature of things -- The classics ; Isaac and the little moon ; Michael: fields and light -- Albert ; The extended present ; The most beautiful of theories ; Mathematics or physics? ; The cosmos -- Quanta ; Albert again ; Niels, Werner, and Paul ; Fields and particles are the same thing ; Quanta 1: Information is finite ; Quanta 2: Indeterminacy ; Quanta 3: Reality is relation ; But do we really understand? -- Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loop's first steps -- Quanta of space ; Spectra of volume and area ; Atoms of space ; Spin networks -- Time does not exist ; Time is not what we think it is ; The candle chandelier and the pulse ; Spacetime sushi ; spinfoam ; What is the world made of? -- Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology -- Empirical confirmations? ; Sign from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity -- Quantum black holes -- The end of infinity -- Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information -- Mystery.
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