Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Riverhead, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-399-18441-3
This enchanting book from Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, looks at physics as a continually changing quest for understanding of our universe, instead of as immutable laws of nature. These pieces, expanded from a series of articles written
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Carlo Rovelli, trans. from Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Riverhead, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1392-0
In his latest explanatory work, Rovelli (Seven Brief Lessons on Physics), a theoretical physicist and proponent of loop quantum gravity, sets himself the difficult task of attempting to clarify for laypeople the most recent scientific theories about
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Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. Riverhead, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-19215-3
Theoretical physicist Rovelli (The Order of Time) considers politics, art, philosophy, and science in this provocative collection of 46 previously published essays. In “Dante, Einstein and the Three-Sphere” he muses on how Dante anticipated Einstein’
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Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead, $18 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-54236-1
Theoretical physicist Rovelli (There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important than Kindness) delivers an insightful survey of the scientific contributions of Greek philosopher Anaximander (610–545 BCE). Anaximander, Rovelli contends,...
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Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Simon Carnell. Riverhead, $26 (176p) ISBN 978-0-593-54544-7
This mind-bending outing by physicist Rovelli (Anaximander) explores the possibility of the existence of white holes, the hypothesized inverse of black holes. He explains that black holes were first proposed as a consequence of Einstein’s equations...
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Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. Riverhead, $20 (256) ISBN 978-0-593-32888-0
Physicist Rovelli (The Order of Time) dazzles with this look at the “almost psychedelic experience” of understanding quantum theory. He begins by explaining the theory’s development on the North Sea island of Helgoland in 1925, when Werner...
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Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. Riverhead, $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1610-5
In this far-reaching text rife with references to poets, artists, and philosophers, as well as scientists, theoretical physicist Rovelli (Seven Brief Lessons on Physics) takes readers through the current scientific understanding of time, stating...
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