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Review of the book Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli. According to the review the author proposes that there is no essence to
by ttonkytonk 5y ago
Review of the book Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli.
According to the review the author proposes that there is no essence to things but only relations, but doesn't explain his theory completely.
- JadeNB 5y ago> According to the review the author proposes that there is no essence to things but only relations, but doesn't explain his theory completely. As someone who loves science popularisers and reads a lot of them, that seems consistent with my experience of The order of time—which I couldn't even finish. On the other hand, take my perspective with a grain of salt: I was also very much turned off by Hawking and Mlodinow's The grand design, which I think is otherwise very well received. I love Sean Carroll and Brian Greene as popularisers of what can be very inaccessible physics. (Oh, and it was a long time ago, but I loved Lederman's The God particle, much as he regretted his own naming later.)
- noblethrasher 5y agoThat’s also the gist of the Wolfram Physics Project: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...