Professor rovelli writes in the best tradition of the liberal arts and sciences. Rovelli shows that the universe is stranger than we imagine. What rovelli shares in this book is a glimpse into the unknown.

An intense humanist, rationalist, and materialist thought emerges from what we know of the work of these thinkers. Science is always imperfect and generally improves with each iteration by new and young scientists.

Carlo rovelli is an italian theoretical physicist who is the head of the quantum gravity group at aix-marseille university in france. Rovelli also introduces the scientific insight of a young belgian priest named georges lemaitre who first recognized ...  Read More

He's a humanist who writes with breadth, and with real heart. He also goes out of his way to avoid the kind of scientific jargon. Even when dealing with technicalities, he manages to translate difficult ideas into accesible words for the lay person.

Loop quantum gravity is a theory that integrates quantum mechanics with general relativity. Author carlo rovelli believes that string theory spins up new quite possibly fictional theoretical entities and attributes, motivated by the need to make the t...  Read More

A theory that is consistent with anything you can imagine explains nothing. One is a central problem with the big bang itself that physicists don't ever really logically give due consideration, where all the empty space is compressed out of the quarks...  Read More

The author spends endless amount of time mentioning the likes of democritus and other names from the past, romanticizing them. The book has four chapters, the first is completely redundant going into the past all the way to the greeks. This is probabl...  Read More

The main thing rovelli is trying to get across is his theory about loop quantum gravity. Rovelli makes a little graph with nodes and links, and calls them spin networks (never mind that what spin really is was never adequately explained by dirac) rove...  Read More