Carlo Rovelli
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Carlo Rovelli is an Italian physicist and cosmologist who has worked in Italy, the USA, and France. He was born in Verona, Italy in 1956. His work is mainly in the field of quantum gravity. In 1988 Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin and Abhay Ashtekar introduced a theory of quantum gravity denoted loop quantum gravity.
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[edit] Quantum gravity (2004)
- Quantum Gravity. Cambridge University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-52183-733-2.
- The landscape is magic, the trip is far from being over.
- p. xv
- I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.
- p. xvii
- The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.
- p. 4
- An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.
- p. 4
