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  • Reality Is Not What It Seems

  • The Journey to Quantum Gravity
  • By: Carlo Rovelli
  • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
  • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (150 ratings)

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Reality Is Not What It Seems

By: Carlo Rovelli
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new audiobook about the mind-bending nature of the universe.

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook 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.

©2016 Carlo Rovelli (P)2016 Penguin Audio

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Beautifully written and delivered

A wonderful telling of the history and origins of modern scientific thought through to current theories and the speculative.

It rare to hear science written about with such prose. Loved it!

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outstanding beautifully written and the cutting

can't say how good it is... easily my top five ans his order of time is a contender....

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Fantastic

Carlo Rovelli has done a fantastic job in helping us understand Quantum physics. I was entertained from start to finish and would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in physics.

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A complex topic well written

A very basic discussion of an immensely complex topic. An enjoyable book written by a humble genius.

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A very important book!

Not only important for its effective and layered delivery of the discoveries of science, but more so for the framework of thinking it encourages the reader to hold. This framework is vitally important today. Thank you, Carlo.

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just the beginning

not a science major. learned some, lost too often. listened twice. lost in space time

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It actually changed how i see the world

Had to listen two times to a couple of characters to digest the magnificence of the ideas

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Visuals?

Really good book but I think this form of non fiction requires pictures videos and interactive components

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A master story teller

Professor Rovelli has the gifted knack of explaining to the uninitiated the story of the world’s existence with clarity and conciseness.
For those of us bemused by the irregular appearance in the media of scientific breakthroughs, that are becoming more and more obtuse, he has done us a great service.
A question related to the primary point in his ultimate Chapter 13: Is the science of climate change and global warming ‘settled’?

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Bewildering and fantastic

I will confess to mentally grasping at some of the theoretical concepts in this book but it is so beautifully worded and read that those moments are easily surpassed by the shear joy of the scientific discoveries explained by this author and his generously shared love of physics and the pursuit of knowledge.

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