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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Einstein’s general theory of relativity grew from one simple, revolutionary idea alone.
Chapter 3: Quantum mechanics has perplexed physicists’ minds since the twentieth century and still does today worldwide.
Chapter 4: Our cosmic perspectives have shifted from Earth-centric to a small part of an expanding universe beyond us.
Chapter 5: Our world consists of countless elementary particles and the ways they interact with one another.
Chapter 6: General relativity and quantum mechanics conflict, prompting the emergence of bold new theories today.
Chapter 7: Heat is a chance phenomenon, and explaining heat stands at the very heart of understanding time’s nature in our world.
Chapter 8: Humans belong to this wondrous world that modern physics fully describes.
Description
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2014) is an informative guide to how we arrived at the two pillars of modern physics: Einstein’s theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Author Carlo Rovelli describes the wondrous world opened up by these two theories, including the secrets they’ve revealed and the mysteries and paradoxes they’ve exposed.
Who Should Listen
- Curious people who want to know more about how the universe works
- Students who want an introduction to quantum physics
- Scientists, physicists and mathematicians