Seven Brief Lessons on Physics () is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages.Le Monde, Sept 24, 2021. Carlo Rovelli, rockstar de la mécanique quantique More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.
Overview The book condenses the revelations of post-Newtonian physics – from Einstein's theory of relativity to quantum mechanics – into seven brief, accessible lessons. These were originally serialised in an Italian newspaper. Rovelli uses a literary approach, for instance, highlighting a year Einstein spent apparently aimlessly with the comment that those who don't waste time, won't get anywhere.
The chapters are:
The Most Beautiful of Theories The Quanta The Architecture of the Cosmos Particles Grains of Space Probability, Time and the Heat of Black Holes Ourselves
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