Scientists today tend to patronise the early Greek philosophers who, 2500 years ago, inaugurated enquiry into the nature of things. The Atomic Theory? A lucky guess, they allege. But Carlo Rovelli ...

Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli (Allen Lane, £16.99) This hugely engaging book, which leaves the head spinning, was published in Italy before Carlo Rovelli’s international bestseller ...

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity Carlo Rovelli, trans. from Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Riverhead, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1392-0 ...

In Reality Is Not What It Seems, he describes his view of reality — the poem he has spent a career attempting to decipher.

In Reality Is Not What It Seems, he describes his view of reality — the poem he has spent a career attempting to decipher.

The title "Reality" may be intended ironically, since Quentin Dupieux's film is anything but.

In Reality Is Not What It Seems, he describes his view of reality — the poem he has spent a career attempting to decipher.

In Reality Is Not What It Seems, he describes his view of reality — the poem he has spent a career attempting to decipher. His writing style is enchanting, as lyrical as a book on physics allows ...

But now, 100 years later, the ultimate reality seems to be particulate: only in mathematics can something be infinitely smoothly connected: in Rovelli’s theory, even space itself seems, ...