Carlo rovelli

The celebrated English writer Ian McEwan has, in his stories and essays, shown a fondness for science. For two years he shadowed a neurosurgeon to write his 2005 novel Saturday, and his 2010 novel Solar focused on a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s solar-energy solution to climate change. His forthcoming novel, Machines Like Me, delves into artificial […]

In the fundamental physics of the world, there is neither space nor time.

Studying time “is like holding a snowflake in your hands: gradually, as you study it, it melts between your fingers and vanishes.”