Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

In under 100 pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific discoveries of the 20th century. He is the head of the Équipe de Gravité Quantique at the theoretical physics department of Aix-Marseille University. These seven short lessons guide us, with admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the 20th century and still continues to shake us today. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated best seller Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed. Carlo Rovelli is an eminent physicist with an extraordinary ability to write about complex topics in a lucid, clear prose. His book was top of the best-seller charts in Italy for months and has sold over 200,000 copies since publication in November. It has sold in over a dozen languages.. Penguin presents the unabridged, download

technoguy said A sprinkling of celestial seas, quarks and electrons.. Seven brief lessons in physics seems to offer a style based on the economy of science as its translated into language, which touches on poetry and philosophy. It recalls Lucretius in its compression of complex physics: nature is our home and in nature we are at home. It also invokes the poetry of Quasimodo in its classic fire and burning sense of the truth and beauty of the world. Its use of language is similar to Einstein&rsqu