Ah, finally it's Saturday and I can sit down and read. Also listening my beloved Rose Daughter by Robin Mckinley which is an absolute treat. 📚🎧👾
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Reality Is Not What It Seems | 
Ah, finally it's Saturday and I can sit down and read. Also listening my beloved Rose Daughter by Robin Mckinley which is an absolute treat. 📚🎧👾
so-soIncredibly informative but not the easiest to read 🤷🏻♀️
#Audiowalking my way home from work. I‘m enjoying the tagged book - even though a lot of the more abstract concepts are over my head - partially because I like the author‘s voice, partially because I like the narrator‘s.
#TBRtemptation post 2! What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? What is reality? From Aristotle to Einstein, Faraday to the Higgs boson, the award-winning scientist shows in layman's terms how our ideas about reality have changed and how they'll continue to change because of quantum physics. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
Fenrir naps with his Gram while I catch up on my nonfiction reading. #nonfiction #sciencepluspoetry #translations
#bookhaul Went to the library to return one book. Picked up five. 🤷🏻♀️
I started this one today! Thank you again for sending it to me, @minkyb it's interesting so far!
pickQuantum gravity, quantum mechanics, loop quantum gravity, and time. I'm not gonna lie, some of this went right over my head but some was pretty engrossing. Give it a try, it's better to try and understand a little than be a complete Trump! 🌌🌠⌛️⏳🔬🔭⚗️
Sometimes you just need another cup. ☕️ #106outside #morecoffee
Independent bookstores should be celebrated everyday, but today's a good excuse to visit your local (if you need an excuse). Here are a few more:
pickI really enjoyed this audiobook, even though I feel quite thick-headed when it comes to quantum physics. My favourite part describes the notion of thermal time: "There is no preferred direction of time without heat." And: "It is always heat and only heat that distinguishes the past from the future." An accessible translation from Italian by Simon Carnell & Erica Segre, smoothly narrated by Roy McMillan.
"The fact that [the Higgs particle] has been called the God particle is so stupid as to be unworthy of comment."
(Rovelli does not mince words.)
"To us, the idea of space seems natural, but it is our familiarity with Newtonian physics that makes it so. If you think about it, empty space is not part of our experience."
I love listening to science audiobooks, even though I sometimes have to rewind to be sure I've understood.
"Our culture is foolish to keep science and poetry separated: they are two tools to open our eyes to the complexity and beauty of the world."
Excellent audiobook! Makes advances in physics accessible to those of us without a science background. #KBReads #NF #librarybook #eAudio
#TBRtemptation post! This cover is much too busy and hurts my eyes, lol; luckily, it doesn't carry over onto the pages. From the guy who wrote "Seven Brief Lessons On Physics" comes this just-released work. What's time & space made of? Where's matter come from? What exactly is reality? Rovelli explains how our image of the world has changed from Aristotle to his own contemporary studies. He explains in laymen's terms. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?
I judged the book by its cover (though 100x more attractive in hard cover) and now I am going to read this physics book.
