Reality Is Not What It Seems (Unreal reality. A journey through a quantum loop)
Today I decided to remember the book “Unreal reality”. A journey through the quantum loop by physicist Carlo Rovelli. I first heard about her. 3 rose-year articles in postnauka.ruThere was a chapter on quantum black holes and I immediately added it to my vishlist for buying and reading. I’ve been reading this book for a year and a half and I can say it’s very good. Very simply and on the fingers, the theory of loop quantum gravity as a development of the concept of the Democritus atom is presented:) The book consists of 4 parts:
- Roots - the development of physics from the time of ancient Greek philosophers to the end 19 Newtonian gravity and the electromagnetism of Faraday and Maxwell were already discovered and described.
- The beginning of the revolution - the emergence of general and special relativity and quantum physics
- Quantum space and relational time - a presentation of the loop theory of quantum gravity, which combines 2 successful theories from the previous paragraph
- Beyond space and time is a story about how loop theory explains phenomena like the big bang, black holes, eliminates infinities in quantum field theory and allows a better understanding of time:) In general, the book is written easily and interesting. I recommend it.
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