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(0)Carlo Rovelli
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"Personally I would have included an extra eighth lesson on chaos theory and complexity since I think those are going to be key scientific issues in the 21st century.The first lesson is about Einstein's general theory of relativity which saw yet another towering validation this year with the discovery of gravitational waves.The Russian physicist Lev Landau called it the "Most beautiful theory" and I would say there would be few contenders for that...
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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. In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Democritus to Albert Einstein, from Michael...