num_pages: 81
description: All the beauty of modern physics in fewer than a hundred pages.This is a book about the joy of discovery. A playful entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics it's already a major bestseller in Italy and the United Kingdom. Carlo Rovelli offers surprisingand surprisingly easy to graspexplanations of 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. Here on the edge of what we know in contact with the ocean of the unknown shines the mystery and the beauty of the world Rovelli writes. And its breathtaking.
language: English
title: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
publisher: Riverhead Books