Carlo Rovelli
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"Von Natur aus wollen wir immer mehr wissen und immer weiter lernen. Unser Wissen über die Welt wächst. Uns treibt der Drang nach Erkenntnis und lernend stoßen wir an Grenzen. In den tiefsten Tiefen des Raumgewebes, im Ursprung des Kosmos, im Wesen der Zeit, im Schicksal der Schwarzen Löcher und im Funktionieren unseres eigenen Denkens. Hier, an den Grenzen unseres Wissens, wo sich das Meer unseres Nichtwissens vor uns auftut, leuchten das Geheimnis...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is a book about the joy of discovery. Carlo Rovelli brings a playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, offering surprisingand surprisingly easy to graspexplanations of Einstein's 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...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzlephysicists and philosophers alike."--
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 19 cm.
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"In Helgoland, Carlo Rovelli examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the 21-year-old Werner Heisenberg first developed quantum theory, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, cats that appear both dead and alive), quantum...
7) Helgoland
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Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
212 páginas ; 22 cm
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En junio de 1925, Werner Heisenberg, de veintitrés años, se retira a Helgoland, una pequeña isla en el Mar del Norte, sin árboles y batida por el viento, para descansar y tratar de apaciguar la alergia que padece. Insomne, pasea por la noche para reflexionar y al alba da con una idea que transformará la ciencia y nuestra concepción del mundo. Ha puesto la primera piedra de la teoría cuántica. Carlo Rovelli, que a su profesión de físico añade...