THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER' There's a book I've been carrying around like a small Bible Seven Brief Lessons on Physics'
- Benedict Cumberbatch Everything you need to know about modern physics the universe & our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons ' Here on the edge of what we know in contact with the ocean of the unknown shines the mystery & the beauty of the world & it's breathtaking' These seven short lessons guide us with simplicity & clarity through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century & still continues to shake us today In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity quantum mechanics black holes the complex architecture of the universe elementary particles gravity & the nature of the mind Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly intelligently & entertainingly revealed