![]() ![]() It is 7 chapters (Six lesson and a conclusion) of about 10 pages each. I am reminded of this meal when I read this book. ![]() It was random, beautiful, and one of those moments that happens by accident and you cherish for years to come. ![]() The conversation drifted from music to politics to art to nature. At my table in the church's cultural hall, after the service (but before the burial) was his son, who had his PhD in genetics, a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist, and a theoretical physicist from UC Santa Barbara. He was the first nuclear medicine physician in my state and had his PhD and MD. This book reminds me of a funeral I went to for a former (obvious) client of mine. Look closely at the writings of Aristotle, Lucretius, Einstein and Feynman, and one discovers not just some code to the operation of the Universe, but love songs to that Universe, a desire to connect to and explain the beauty and transcendence of Nature and our role in this complex and amazing world. We realize that we are full of prejudices and that our intuitive image of the world is partial, parochial, inadequate." ― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics At the highest level a discussion of physics doesn't just operate on a mathematical level, but a poetic and philosophical level as well. What we see does not cease to astound us. ![]() "Physics opens windows through which we see far into the distance. ![]()
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