Goodreads synopsis: All the beauty of modern physics in fewer than a hundred pages.
This is a book about the joy of discovery. A playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, it's already a major bestseller in Italy and the United Kingdom. Carlo Rovelli offers surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations of general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. “Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world,” Rovelli writes. “And it’s breathtaking.”
My rating: 4 stars.
Thoughts: It's a complicated and confusing book to read sometimes, I felt like my brain was melting, but maybe that just proves I'm not a science-y person. But there is a beauty and a wonder to the world that the author is trying to share with the reader, and that alone makes it a lovely book, and it certainly has a lot of reread potential, at least for me, in trying to glean even more information from the short and simply written pages of the book.
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