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050	1	4	_aQC 178 _bR873r 2017
100	1		_aRovelli, Carlo, _d1956- _934032
245	1	0	_aReality is not what it seems : _bthe journey to quantum gravity / _cCarlo Rovelli ; translation by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
250			_aFirst American edition.
260			_aNew York : _bRiverhead Books, _c2017.
300			_a280 pages : _billustration ; _c21 cm.
500			_aOriginally published in Italian under the title: La Realtà non è come ci appare.
505			_aGrains ; Is there a limit to divisibility? ; The nature of things -- The classics ; Isaac and the little moon ; Michael: fields and light -- Albert ; The extended present ; The most beautiful of theories ; Mathematics or physics? ; The cosmos -- Quanta ; Albert again ; Niels, Werner, and Paul ; Fields and particles are the same thing ; Quanta 1: Information is finite ; Quanta 2: Indeterminacy ; Quanta 3: Reality is relation ; But do we really understand? -- Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loop's first steps -- Quanta of space ; Spectra of volume and area ; Atoms of space ; Spin networks -- Time does not exist ; Time is not what we think it is ; The candle chandelier and the pulse ; Spacetime sushi spinfoam ; What is the world made of? -- Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology -- Empirical confirmations? ; Signals from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity -- Quantum black holes -- The end of infinity -- Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information -- Mystery.
520			_a"What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? In elegant and accessible prose, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli leads us on a wondrous journey from Democritus to Einstein, from Michael Faraday to gravitational waves, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers deeper explanations of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics".
650		4	_aGravedad cuántica _934535
700	1		_aCarnell, Simon, _d1962- _etranslation _934034
700	1		_aSegre, Erica _934035 _etranslation
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