''Seven Brief Lessons on Physics'' ( it, Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist

Carlo Rovelli Carlo Rovelli (born May 3, 1956) is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States and, since 2000, in France. He is also currently a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and c ...

. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages. Le Monde, Sept 24, 2021. Carlo Rovelli, rockstar de la mécanique quantiqu

/ref> More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.

Overview

The book condenses the revelations of modern physics, post-Newtonian physics – from Einstein's theory of relativity to quantum mechanics – into seven brief, accessible lessons: These were originally serialised in an Italian newspaper. Rovelli's uses a literary approach, for instance, highlighting a year Einstein spent apparently aimlessly with the comment that those who don't waste time, wont get anywhere. # The Most Beautiful of Theories # The Quanta # The Architecture of the Cosmos # Particles # Grains of Space # Probability, Time and the Heat of Black Holes # Ourselves

References

2014 non-fiction books Penguin Books books Italian non-fiction books Popular physics books {{Physics-book-stub