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Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity
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Reality is not what it seems : the journey to quantum gravity

by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre

An exploration of how our understanding of space, time and matter has changed over centuries, tracing the evolution of physics from Aristotle and Albert Einstein to Michael Faraday and the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Accession 11785 ISBN 9780241257968 Publisher Allen Lane
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