"In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites [the reader] to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike" -- Provided by publisher.
"What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions. He tells us how our understanding of reality has changed over the centuries and how physicists think about the structure of the universe today"--Provided by publisher.
"An introduction to modern physics by a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory shares seven succinct lessons on topics ranging from general relativity and quantum mechanics to elementary particles and black holes."--OCLC.
