Helgoland

Resumen del libro

The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and scienceChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and Prospect'Popular science has rarely been so good' ProspectIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world. In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science.

It is a celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place. Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations.

Where we, as every other thing around us, exist in our interactions with one another, in a never-ending game of mirrors. A dazzling work from a celebrated scientist and master storyteller, Helgoland transports us to dizzying heights, reminding us of the many pleasures of the life of the mind. Translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Carlo Rovellix{0026}lt;/strong (Verona, 1956) es físico teórico, y uno de los fundadores de la llamada gravedad cuántica de bucles . Es miembro del Instituto Universitario de Francia y de la Academia Internacional de Filosofía de la Ciencia. Responsable del equipo de gravedad cuántica del Centro de Física Teórica de la Universidad de Aix-Marsella, es autor de numerosos trabajos científicos aparecidos en las revistas más importantes de su ámbito y de dos monografías sobre la gravedad cuántica de bucles, así como de múltiples libros de divulgación, publicados en varios países. En Anagrama se han editado x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Siete breves lecciones de físicax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El orden del tiempox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong . Colabora con frecuencia en la prensa italiana, especialmente en x{0026}lt;em Il Sole 24 Orex{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em La Repubblicax{0026}lt;/em .x{0026}lt;/p