Reality Is Not What It Seems

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*New York Times*–bestselling author and theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli presents an engaging, accessible exploration of the universe's fundamental nature. Building on themes from *Seven Brief Lessons on Physics*, Rovelli delves deeper into profound questions: What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what is reality? With elegant prose, he guides readers from ancient philosophy to Einstein and classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. Rovelli illuminates complex ideas such as grainy space, the disappearance of time at its smallest scales, and exploding black holes, revealing how our understanding of reality has evolved.