Die Wirklichkeit, die nicht so ist, wie sie scheint

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German language

Published Aug. 9, 2016

ISBN:
9783498058067

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4 stars (1 review)

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Italian: La realtà non è come ci appare. La struttura elementare delle cose) is an illustrated book by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. The book discusses quantum gravity. It was first published in Italian in 2014 (before the author's best-seller Seven Brief Lessons on Physics). It was published in English in 2016 by which time the English translation of Seven Brief Lessons had already appeared.

4 editions

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What have physicists done in the last 100 years for Non-Physicist

4 stars

Obviously, the public is interested in what the 10,000 researching physicists are doing: the image of a black hole, Higgs boson, etc. This book explains what physicists have been up to for the last 100 years and how our everyday understanding is being overturned as a result. To illustrate this, the author uses the history of physical thinking in antiquity and from modern times onwards. I highly enjoyed enjoyed reading the book and learned a great deal. It cured my anger about "emanzipatorische Wissenschaftskritik", which was just a "mutual admiration sub reddit" in my opinion.