Carlo Rovelli – författare

»Jag vet inte om idén att svarta hål avslutar sin långa livstid genom att omvandlas till vita hål är korrekt. Det är det fenomen jag har studerat de senaste åren. Det involverar tiden och rummets kvantmekaniska natur, skilda perspektivs samexistens och grunden till att det förflutna skiljer sig från framtiden. Att utforska denna idé är ett äventyr som fortfarande pågår. Jag berättar det som om det vore en rapport från frontlinjen. Vad är svarta hål, som myllrar i universum? Vad är vita hål, deras svårfångade småsyskon? Och de frågor som alltid har förföljt mig: Hur förstår vi det vi aldrig har sett? Varför vill vi alltid gå vidare och se lite längre bort…?«

– Carlo Rovelli

»Möt den nya Stephen Hawking« – The Sunday Times

Världen består inte av individuella objekt utan av relationer.

Sedan kvantteorin formulerades har den förändrat vår förståelse av verkligheten i grunden. Men den motsägelsefulla världsbild som framträdde var så gåtfull att fysiker lade frågan om kvantfysikens innebörd åt sidan i över ett halvsekel.

I Helgoland ger Carlo Rovelli gåtan ett svar som är lika elegant som omvälvande. Han visar fram en annan och mer nyanserad verklighet än den som är grundad i elementarpartiklarnas schematiska materialism. En verklighet vars fundamentala grammatik stavas processer, händelser – och relationer.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics written and read by Carlo Rovelli.These seven "short lessons" guide us, with admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this short, playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Rovelli explains Einstein''s theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. In under one hundred pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. Not since Richard Feynman''s celebrated best-seller Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed. Carlo Rovelli is an eminent physicist with an extraordinary ability to write about complex topics in a lucid, clear prose. His book was top of the bestseller charts in Italy for months and has sold over 200,000 copies since publication in November. He is the head of the Équipe de Gravité Quantique at the Theoretical Physics Department of Aix-Marseille University. It has sold in over a dozen languages.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan.From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universePenguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook book edition of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Roy McMillan. What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, he takes us on a wondrous journey to show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.

Winner of Audiobook of the Year at The Specsavers National Book Awards 2018Penguin presents the audio edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning of timeTime is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time.''A global superstar. . . Rovelli is making the grammar of the universe accessible to a new generation'' - Channel 4 News

Brought to you by Penguin. One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature, philosophy and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, these pieces, most of which were first published in Italian newspapers, range widely across time and space: from Newton''s alchemy to Einstein''s mistakes, from Nabokov''s lepidoptery to Dante''s cosmology, from travels in Africa to the consciousness of an octopus, from mind-altering psychedelic substances to the meaning of atheism. Charming, pithy and elegant, this book is the perfect gateway to the universe of one of the most influential physicists of our age.© Carlo Rovelli 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Brought to you by Penguin. The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum physicsIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts: quantum theory.Almost a century later, quantum physics has given us many startling ideas: ghost waves, distant objects that seem magically connected to each other, cats that are both dead and alive. Countless experiments have led to practical applications that shape our daily lives. Today our understanding of the world around us is based on this theory. And yet it is still profoundly mysterious.In this enchanting book, Carlo Rovelli, one of our most celebrated scientists, tells the extraordinary story of quantum physics and reveals its deep meaning: a world made of substances is replaced by a world made of relations, each particle responding to another in a never ending game of mirrors.Shifting our perspective once again, Rovelli takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better understand our place in it.© Carlo Rovelli 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021