Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli (Simon Carnell a Erica Segre)
Riverhead Books • 2016

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 surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations 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 it’s breathtaking.”
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Originálny názov: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Vydavateľstvo: Tatran Rok vydania: 2016 Väzba: Pevná s prebalom Počet strán: 72 Hodnotenie: 5/5 Anotácia: Jednoduché, zrozumiteľné a obdivuhodné. To je stručná charakteristika Rovelliho diela, ktoré bolo preložené do viac ako štyridsiatich jazykov. Keď autorovi ponúkli priestor v nedeľnej prílohe denníka Sole 24 Ore, dokonale ho[...]

Originálny názov: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Vydavateľstvo: Tatran Rok vydania: 2016 Väzba: Pevná s prebalom Počet strán: 72 Hodnotenie: 5/5 Anotácia: Jednoduché, zrozumiteľné a obdivuhodné. To je stručná charakteristika Rovelliho diela, ktoré bolo preložené do viac ako štyridsiatich jazykov. Keď autorovi ponúkli priestor v nedeľnej prílohe denníka Sole 24 Ore, dokonale ho[...]

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 surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations 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 it’s breathtaking.”