A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book. The heart and humanity of the book, its poetry and its gentle tone raise it to the level and style of such great scientist-writers as Lewis Thomas and Rachel Carson Alan Lightman, New York Times Book Review Rovelli writes easily, vividly and brilliantly - he is as at ease with Beethoven as he is with Boltzmann's constant, and verses by Horace launch each chapter, one of which ends with a couplet from the Grateful Dead. With the publication of his million-selling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern theoretical physics Sam Leith, SpectatorĪ joy to read. Not since Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has there been so genial an integration of physics and philosophy Ian Thomson, Observer Rovelli is one of our great scientific explicators. I've never seen special relativity explained so well, never visualised it less fuzzily, never felt such a jolt of shock at what it implies James McConnachie, Sunday Times The Order of Time will surely establish Rovelli among the pantheon of great scientist-communicators Philip Ball, New Scientist Physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time. stunningly written Tom Whipple, The Times The most fun physicist to be with - as well as the greatest explainer of physics Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesĪ dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time Charlotte Higgins, GuardianĪn elegantly concise primer makes theoretical physics intelligible.
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