Title:
Seven brief lessons on physics / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
ISBN:
9780399184413
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.
©2015
Physical Description:
86 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
General Note:
Translation from the Italian of: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica.
"English translation published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
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.
Summary:
Carlo Rovelli brings a playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, offering surprising--and surprisingly easy to grasp--explanations of Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds.
OCLC Number:
ocn933728535
Availability:
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