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When I first saw this book, I knew I had to have it. And read it, of course 😁 Thanks to @PuddleJumper and #Roll100 I can finally call it mine!

It's short, but extremely interesting, especially for people who want to know more about physics but don't know where to start. Easy to read and good to understand, I enjoyed every chapter of this book.

This little beauty is my #roll100 for March. I've wanted to read it since I saw it for the first time 😍

@PuddleJumper

This book goes way beyond Physics 101 to some meaty principles of physics (not all of which are fully understood or resolved), but in a conversational way. I can‘t say I fully understand it all (nor would I expect to with a deeper dive, as I may be too much of a concrete thinker for this stuff), but I appreciate the entrée into complex physics.

A confounding read for unexpected reasons! Truly brief, yet the writing isn‘t simplified- only the science. It expanded my vocabulary more than my physics knowledge, and I‘d call them ‘musings‘ rather than lessons.

A title like “The Beauty of Physics” may attract what I imagine is the ideal audience: highly literate art-lovers who want to appreciate physics. The author‘s passion for the aesthetics of his field is contagious. #NonfictionNovember

🎧 I had a little difficulty with the author‘s voice. It was a nice accent but I found myself listening to his voice not the content 😁 it‘s some great content so I had to keep stepping back and relistening. It was short so it wasn‘t a big deal & he makes the content easily understood. Interesting. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Here on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it‘s breathtaking.”

What a delightful book. Rovelli shows not only the beauty of our universe, but the beauty of the curiosity and wonder that lead us to discoveries about it.

A sweet quick read detailing the biggest mysteries in physics. It‘s written in a way that‘s easy to understand, but still mind-blowing. The universe is amazing!

Such a pretty cover!

1) Any day Anne Hegerty is the chaser! 😂😂😂
2) Taylor Swift
3) Coffee and biscuits round a friend's
4) Tagged.

#premondayvibes @pepsicola

As the title suggests, it is seven very brief lessons on physics. Short, fairly simple excerpts of bigger ideas in physics. Feels like an introduction or a snapshot of modern science.

We need it!

Science that tries to understand and explain the world and eventually us (the brains) is, after all, interconnected and accorded with philosophy. Isn‘t it.

Nature is our home, and in nature we are at home.

Smart, simple, beautiful. In the midst of everything “hurry up and offense” around me, am so glad I picked up this book, sat down, and found great joy.

#physics #wearemadeupofthesameatoms #wearenature #philosophy #smart #beautiful #joy

Profound short book, I recommend reading one lesson at a time and stopping a while to ponder the magnitude of what you've just tried to comprehend. Excellent!

Good overview of contemporary physics, if at times a little overbearing.

We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality. I fear that soon we shall also have to become the only species that will knowingly watch the coming of its own collective demise, or at least the demise of its civilization.

I've been pretty interested in physics lately, so I'm trying to learn more. This was a a wonderful introduction, the kind intended for anyone interested in physics who perhaps didn't study science past the age of 15 (like me). It introduces fascinating concepts in a way that is easy to understand. Definitely recommended.

Bed head reading selfie for #riotgrams (it's a good book too).

Not the best choice for audio-cooking. Much of it was over my head and the author's accent meant I should have been paying closer attention, so I missed a lot. This will definitely require a re-read, and I think I will benefit from reading this in print.
Overall, an interesting look at physics, a subject I don't understand well.

I can't fully comprehend much of it but this sounds like a love letter written to physics, mathematics, and the cosmos. Beautifully written and it's possible that I may be learning something.

#currentlylistening

4/52 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5. Although I did not comprehend much what the author had written, I am intrigued by what I did understand and motivated to learn even more about certain topics. Chapter 3 on cosmos was my favorite and the last Chapter was very thought-provoking. He is a very talented writer. He writes about science and the unknown with such beautiful language.

Just one more chapter to finish, but my brain is hurting a little. He is a great writer and loves physics. I learned some things, but not sure it will stick without further reading. Lesson 3 on Cosmos is my favorite chapter so far, but last one has a lot of promise.

This book came highly recommended to me from a very smart, science-minded, PhD friend of mine. I read lesson one twice and I‘m not sure if I comprehended very much from lesson one, but I‘m determined to read the book knowing that I might not understand most of it. Physics is not my interest, but I‘m sure I am capable of learning something new from this challenging little book of complex ideas!

Nice, quick read that takes one further and further out into the universe before turning back to us humans. Good way to spend an afternoon or evening reading.

I studied Physics and it never was my favourite subject, but I really enjoyed this book with all its semplicity!!!
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#Novemberbythenumbers @Tiffy_Reads @JoeStalksBeck

@BookBabe & I had brunch today with the amazing former owners of the legendary River Run Bookstore, which is in Hastings-On-the-Hudson, NY. Louisa is in #ThePoconoBookClub but couldn't make today's meeting, so we met up with her and her husband at Cafe Duet to discuss books, publishing, running a bookstore, and this wee book on physics. Lol, what an eclectic conversation. Such wonderful, incredible people. I had my usual chorizo-egg sandwich. 😁

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A very quick and short read that has me wanting to know more but I would have called it 7 brief tidbits because I didn't get a lesson out of them...still had me intrigued to learn more about physics though so I'll say it is a pick

I believe that our species will not last long. It does not seem to be made of the stuff that has allowed the turtle, for example, to continue to exist more or less unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, for hundreds of times longer than we have been in existence. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct.

What is heat? What is time? What is space? What is still unknown? I don't know how Rovelli manages to make science so easy to understand for nonscientists. His passion for the beauty of our world comes through clearly. I liked this even better than his Reality Is Not What It Seems.

A university student attending lectures on general relativity in the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for concluding that his professors are fools or have neglected to communicate with one another for at least a century. In the morning the world is curved space where everything is continuous; in the afternoon it is a flat space where quanta of energy leap.

Before experiments, measurements, mathematics, and rigorous deductions, science is above all about visions. Science begins with a vision. Scientific thought is fed by the capacity to "see" things differently than they have previously been seen.

While I didn't feel this book did much in the way of teaching me anything, it still piqued my interest to read more about physics..

An afternoon cocktail with a side of Physics...seems legit to me. 😜...

"Perhaps anyone reading this will still be able to appreciate its wonderful simplicity."

Rovelli's enthusiasm for the beauty of this equation (which shows that space and gravitational field are the same thing) makes me happy, even though all I can glean from the equation is a wonder at the mathematical genius in its creation.

A handful of types of elementary particles, which vibrate and fluctuate constantly between existence and nonexistence and swarm in space, even when it seems that there is nothing there, combine to infinity like the letters of a cosmic alphabet to tell the immense history of galaxies; of the innumerable stars; of sunlight; of mountains, woods and fields of grain; of the smiling faces of the young at parties; and of the night sky studded with stars.

We are like the only child who on growing up realized that the world doesn't not revolve around them alone, as they thought when they were little. They must learn to be amongst others. Mirrored by others and by other things, we learn who we are...

So fascinating! The author really simplifies complex scientific theories and makes them much more palatable for people like me who aren't very well-versed in them. I felt like I understood most of what he explained and it is as breathtaking as he says it is. You can really feel his love and amazement for the subject. I especially enjoyed the last lesson, where he discusses how all those theories interact with and shape humans.

About to start!!!

"You don't get anywhere by not "wasting" time-something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend to frequently forget."

⛤⛤⛤⛤⛤❤ read for me. It took a long time to finish as I had to look up a lot of the concepts and meanings.

#marchintoreading #marchtbr ambitious for me but really hoping to read these this month! 😁

Woohooo new books! 😍