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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- Author
- Carlo Rovelli
- Narrator
- Carlo Rovelli
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 24 September 2015
- Run Time
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics written and read by Carlo Rovelli.
These seven "short lessons" guide us, with admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this short, playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. In under one hundred pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. 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 bestseller charts in Italy for months and has sold over 200,000 copies since publication in November. He is the head of the Équipe de Gravité Quantique at the Theoretical Physics Department of Aix-Marseille University. It has sold in over a dozen languages.
Critics Review
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Intense and extremely beautiful
Corriere della Sera
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Scientists are poets and their theories appear to capture the meaning of everything
La Stampa
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 4.0
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4.0 4.0
Science well presented. A little wacko in places. Informative and listenable
hallwiton 2025-06-12
Details
- Author
- Carlo Rovelli
- Narrator
- Carlo Rovelli
- Duration
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 September 2015
- ISBN
- 9780141982625
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Physics, Popular science, Theoretical and mathematical astronomy
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics written and read by Carlo Rovelli.These seven "short lessons" guide us, with admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this short, playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. In under one hundred pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. 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 bestseller charts in Italy for months and has sold over 200,000 copies since publication in November. He is the head of the Équipe de Gravité Quantique at the Theoretical Physics Department of Aix-Marseille University. It has sold in over a dozen languages.
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