I recently read this fabulous book by Carlo Rovelli.
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The book works on many levels. It is an attempt to explain the emerging theory of quantum gravity. This has numerous mind-blowing conceptual elements – such as the idea that spacetime is quantized, that time isn’t really a fundamental thing that ticks forward – it’s just our perception – a resultant effect of innumerable quantum-level events and the average direction of heat flow; and that everything in the universe is made up of ‘covariant quantum fields’: there are no particles, waves, or forces as such.
Rovelli…
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