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Reality Is Not What It Seems

The Journey to Quantum Gravity

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Reality Is Not What It Seems

Written by: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan.

From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook book edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan.

What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, he takes us on a wondrous journey to show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.

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The physicist transforming how we see the universe
Carlo Rovelli manages to convey the mystery of very large things and very small things with brilliant effect (Philip Pullman)
If you want to understand what gets physicists out of bed in the morning, there is no better guide than Rovelli (Michael Brooks)
Carlo Rovelli has never been afraid to challenge the status quo (Morgan Freeman)
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Extraordinarily explained physics journey since its inception.. I thoroughly enjoyed and more importantly learned much about it!!
I highly recommend this book if you are interested in Physics and its scientific learning...

Meticulously explained and well narrated!!!

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One of the great science books. Narrator is awesome. Loved every bit of it. It was fun even for a casual listener like me

awesome book on the nature of reality

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An illuminating read - connects the basics of science to quantum. A touch of human belief at the end evokes thinking.

An illuminating read

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This is my First Book where I came to know about concepts in the order of their discovery or realisation from the respective scientist...

Loved it to the Core

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A chronological account of progress of science from 500BC till today. From theories immersed in poetry to quantum gravity.

My take away is that Time is heat. Space is a foam. Universe is granular. We know a lot, yet we know nothing!

Must read for every science and spirituality aspirant

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