Carlo Rovelli
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Qu'est-ce que le temps ? C'est à cette question fascinante que le physicien italien Carlo Rovelli a consacré sa vie de chercheur. Se hissant sur les épaules d'Isaac Newton, d'Albert Einstein, de Stephen Hawking et de bien d'autres, il nous livre ses découvertes dans ce livre majeur.Le temps est au coeur d'un étrange mystère. Tel un flocon de neige, il est insaisissable : on sait dorénavant qu'il s'écoule plus lentement en plaine qu'en altitude ; qu'à l'échelle des étoiles et des planètes, il varie d'un point à l'autre.Que reste-t-il de tangible dans ces décombres ? Et comment construire une théorie du temps qui colle à notre perception, mais aussi à l'analyse des philosophes et aux fulgurances des poètes ? Voilà le défi brillamment relevé par Carlo Rovelli au fil des pages. Émerge alors un paysage d'une beauté inouïe où, pour la première fois, le temps retrouvé surgit de façon naturelle...
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Esprit libre, scientifique de renom, curieux de philosophie, Carlo Rovelli est aussi un formidable conteur. Sa curiosité l'amène à s'interroger sur le monde qui nous entoure, sur la nature du temps qui passe, jusqu'aux grandes questions philosophiques.Il rassemble ses réflexions dans ces Écrits vagabonds, un recueil de textes accessibles, composés au long cours, qui va des trous noirs à la Lolita de Nabokov, de l'athéisme à l'alchimie de Newton, de la philosophie analytique aux erreurs d'Einstein.Dans ce journal de bord d'une intelligence toujours en mouvement, le lecteur fera l'expérience d'une pensée qui s'intéresse à tout, subtile, profondément contemporaine. Il rencontrera un esprit en quête continuelle d'une cohérence où science, littérature et philosophie dialoguent harmonieusement.Un précipité de connaissance et d'inventivité.
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Helgoland : le sens de la mécanique quantique
Carlo Rovelli
- Flammarion
- 6 Septembre 2023
- 9782080429865
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Un chemin vers une nouvelle physique ?
Carlo Rovelli nous raconte son parcours personnel de chercheur et ses interrogations sur la nature de l'espace et du temps. Relativité générale, mécanique quantique, gravité quantique, naissance de l'Univers, destin des trous noirs sont les personnages principaux de ce témoignage direct d'une vie au coeur de la science.
Dans cette édition actualisée, des idées nouvelles apparaissent comme les étoiles de Planck ou encore le débat sur la réalité du Temps.
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La naissance de la pensée scientifique ; Anaximandre de Milet
Carlo Rovelli
- Dunod
- Ekho
- 1 Juillet 2020
- 9782100809387
Anaximandre, né voici vingt-six siècles dans la cité grecque de Milet en Anatolie, était le disciple de Thalès. Moins connu que son illustre prédécesseur, il est pourtant à l'origine de l'immense bouleversement conceptuel qui donna naissance à la science. De l'observation perspicace du mouvement des étoiles, il tira la conclusion que la Terre ne repose sur aucun support solide, colonnes ou tortue, comme toutes les civilisations l'avaient cru jusqu'alors. Pour Anaximandre, et pour l'humanité à venir, la Terre « flotte » dans le ciel. Le premier, il chercha les causes des phénomènes naturels non pas dans les caprices des dieux, mais dans la nature elle-même. Plus important encore, il initia le processus de révolte savante qui est la démarche de la science : construire sur le savoir acquis, mais remettre toute vérité en doute. Un des grands physiciens de notre temps, Carlo Rovelli, propose dans ce livre une réflexion sur la pensée scientifique et une lecture originale de la nature de cette pensée. Il en éclaire l'irréductible originalité, sa capacité de redessiner sans cesse l'image du monde, à l'oeuvre chez Anaximandre comme chez Newton, chez Einstein et jusqu'à la gravité quantique.
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Time 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, art and philosophy, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time.
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HELGOLAND - THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL STORY OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
Carlo Rovelli
- Penguin books uk
- 1 Septembre 2022
- 9780141993270
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and sciencebr>br>Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and Prospectbr>br>''Popular science has rarely been so good'' Prospectbr>br>In 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.br>br>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.br>br>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.br>br>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.br>br>Translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell>
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THERE ARE PLACES IN THE WORLD WHERE RULES ARE LESS IMPORTANT THAN - KINDNESS
Carlo Rovelli
- Penguin books uk
- 7 Octobre 2021
- 9780141993256
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique theorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into forty-one languages.>
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HELGOLAND - MAKING SENSE OF THE QUANTUM REVOLUTION
Carlo Rovelli
- Riverhead
- 24 Mai 2022
- 9780593328897
B>b>Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian/b>br>br>Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator This is the place where science comes to life. b>/b>Neil Gaimanbr>br>One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book b>John Banville, The Wall Street Journal/b>/b>br> br> b>A startling new look at quantum theory, from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time./b>br>br>One of the world''s most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving.br>br>Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, cats that appear both dead and alive), quantum physics has led to countless discoveries and technological advancements. Today our understanding of the world is based on this theory, yet it is still profoundly mysterious.br>br>As scientists and philosophers continue to fiercely debate the meaning of the theory, Rovelli argues that its most unsettling contradictions can be explained by seeing the world as fundamentally made of relationships rather than substances. We and everything around us exist only in our interactions with one another. This bold idea suggests new directions for thinking about the structure of reality and even the nature of consciousness.br>br>Rovelli makes learning about quantum mechanics an almost psychedelic experience. Shifting our perspective once again, he takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better comprehend our place in it.
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The bestselling author of Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and the progress of knowledge.
In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximanders overlooked influence on modern science. He examines Anaximander not from the point of view of a historian or as an expert in Greek philosophy, but as a scientist interested in the deep nature of scientific thinking, which Rovelli locates in the critical and rebellious ability to reimagine the world again and again.
