Reality is not what it seems
Subtitle: the journey to quantum gravity
By: Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
Contributors: Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator; Segre, Erica, translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780735213920
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Quantum gravity
Work titles: Realtà non è come ci appare
Description: Traces how the human image of the world has changed throughout history, demonstrating the evolution of the idea of reality while touching on subjects ranging from the Higgs boson to quantum gravity.
Notes: Translation from the Italian of: La Realtà non è come ci appare.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Grains ; Is there a limit to divisibility? ; The nature of things; title: The classics ; Isaac and the little moon ; Michael: fields and light; title: Albert ; The extended present ; The most beautiful of theories ; Mathematics or physics? ; The cosmos; title: Quanta ; Albert again ; Niels, Werner, and Paul ; Fields and particles are the same thing ; Quanta 1: Information is finite ; Quanta 2: Indeterminacy ; Quanta 3: Reality is relation ; But do we really understand?; title: Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loop's first steps; title: Quanta of space ; Spectra of volume and area ; Atoms of space ; Spin networks; title: Time does not exist ; Time is not what we think it is ; The candle chandelier and the pulse ; Spacetime sushi spinfoam ; What is the world made of?; title: Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology; title: Empirical confirmations? ; Signals from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity; title: Quantum black holes; title: The end of infinity; title: Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information; title: Mystery.