La realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose

Rovelli, a physicist who works on loop quantum gravity, starts with Democritus and the idea that matter is made of atoms, then moves through Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein and quantum mechanics. He explains how space and time may not be continuous but made of tiny discrete grains, and how reality may be described as a web of relationships among events instead of a collection of things. The book finishes with black holes, the Big Bang, and the question of what the self is.

A short, clear guide for readers who want modern physics told as a story of ideas, without equations. Good for curious beginners, and for those who found his Seven Brief Lessons too brief.

Outward-looking; a moderate read.

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