| Description |
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in Italian under the title: La Realtà non è come ci appare. |
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"English translation published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Grains ; Is there a limit to divisibility? ; The nature of things -- The classics ; Isaac and the little moon ; Michael: fields and light -- Albert ; The extended present ; The most beautiful of theories ; Mathematics or physics? ; The cosmos -- Quanta ; Albert again ; Niels, Werner, and Paul ; Fields and particles are the same thing ; Quanta 1: Information is finite ; Quanta 2: Indeterminacy ; Quanta 3: Reality is relation ; But do we really understand? -- Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loop's first steps -- Quanta of space ; Spectra of volume and area ; Atoms of space ; Spin networks -- Time does not exist ; Time is not what we think it is ; The candle chandelier and the pulse ; Spacetime sushi ; spinfoam ; What is the world made of? -- Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology -- Empirical confirmations? ; Sign from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity -- Quantum black holes -- The end of infinity -- Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information -- Mystery. |
| Subject |
Quantum gravity.
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| Added Author |
Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator.
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Segre, Erica, translator.
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| Added Title |
Realtà non è come ci appare. English.
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| ISBN |
9780735213920 |
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0735213925 |
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