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White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell
Narrated by: Harry Lloyd
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From Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, this is a story of wonder, new worlds and why the end is just the beginning

Let us journey into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we'll see geometry fold, we'll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we'll pass it: the remains of a star, deep and dense and falling further far. And then - the bottom. Where time and space end, and the white hole is born . . .
With lightness and magic, here Carlo Rovelli traces the ongoing adventure of his own cutting-edge research, of the uncertainty and joy of going where we've not yet been. Guiding us to the edge of theory and experiment, he invites us to go beyond, to experience the fever and the disquiet of science. Here is the extraordinary life of a white hole.

‘If you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with it for the first time, then this book is for you’ Observer

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Rovelli walks the reader through the most exciting theoretical idea in physics today. Rather than space time being pinched off at the singularity of a black hole Einsteins time equations bounce in a reversal- a tiny hiatus where the dynamics of disequilibrium of quantum mechanics that distorts time and our thinking- The White Hole. Rovelli believes art and science reframe conceptual space for us and he gives you all the tools you need to conceive this idea. He does so as a Virgil like guide descending the Inferno. It is quite beautiful and you need no former science background- just an open mind.

Uttering gorgeous

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