书名：Seven Brief Lessons on Physics七堂极简物理课

作者：Carlo Rovelli
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141981727
商品尺寸：19.8 x 0.7 x 12.9 cm
包装：平装
页数：96（以实物为准）

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意大利物理学家卡洛·罗韦利的Seven Brief Lessons on Physics《七堂极简物理课》，是继《时间简史》后的又一经典畅销科普读物，在意大利一年热销30万册；且已被译为34种语言，受到世界各地读者的喜爱。

全书语言优美如诗，内容简洁易懂。由英国知名封面设计师创作封面星空图，英国获奖插画作者创作内文插画，精美装帧，工艺考究，充分呈现设计原貌。

媒体评论：
“罗韦利拥有一种杰出的本领，能够用明确而有说服力的语言将高深的科学理论解释清楚，而无需借助复杂的脚注说明。”——卫报

“短小、精湛又易读……读到后面你会发现你变得更聪明了。大多数人拿起这本书就会一口气读完。”——泰晤士报

“这本书出人意料且充满说明性地阐释了几个世纪的科学精粹。”——经济学人

THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER
Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons
These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this mind-bending overview of modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed.

Review
“There's a book I've been carrying around like a small Bible, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics”(Benedict Cumberbatch)

“The man who makes physics sexy... the new Hawking... His writing is luminous. By the time I had finished reading I was in serious awe of the author”(David Aaronovitch The Times)

“The perfect antidote to the fluff and nonsense around right now. Learn how the world is and how you might just fit in” (Simon Mayo Daily Mirror)

“The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest explainer of physics” (Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times)

“Surely Rovelli deserves the title 'world's most inspiring physics teacher”(Daily Telegraph)

“The physicist transforming how we see the universe” (Financial Times)

“An amuse bouche for some of the ideas that are wrapped up in 20th-century astrophysics where it borders on philosophy. Millions have digested this little treat” (Adam Rutherford Guardian)

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics《七堂极简物理课》用诗一般简洁优美的语言，向读者讲述了20世纪以来现代物理学的伟大理论发现。相对论，量子力学，宇宙的结构，空间的颗粒，时间的本质……在这七堂简单明了的物理课里，作者为我们打开了一个奇妙的物理学的世界，也带我们轻盈地飞过重重障碍，窥见科学的深刻与美丽。没有繁琐的方程，只有诗意的讲述，即使没有科学背景的人也能轻松读懂。
卡洛·罗韦利，意大利理论物理学家，圈量子引力理论的开创者之一，曾在美国、意大利工作，现在法国带领量子引力研究小组。他对科学哲学、科学史也颇有研究，长期在《24小时太阳报》、《共和国报》等意大利报纸上发表文章。

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France. His Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is an international bestseller translated into34 languages.

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don’t get anywhere by not “wasting” time— something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget. He was in Pavia. He had joined his family, having abandoned his studies in Germany, unable to endure the rigors of his high school there. It was the beginning of the twentieth century, and in Italy the beginning of its industrial revolution. His father, an engineer, was installing the first electricity generating power plants in the Paduan plains. Albert was reading Kant and attending occasional lectures at the University of Pavia: for pleasure, without being registered there or having to think about exams. It is thus that serious scientists are made.

After this he registered at the University of Zurich and immersed himself in the study of physics. A few years later, in 1905, he sent three articles to the most prestigious scientific journal of the period, the Annalen der Physik. Each of these is worthy of a Nobel Prize. The first shows that atoms really exist. The second lays the first foundation for quantum mechanics, which I will discuss in the next lesson. The third presents his first theory of relativity (known today as “special relativity”), the theory that elucidates how time does not pass identically for everyone: two identical twins find that they are different in age if one of them has traveled at speed.
Einstein became a renowned scientist overnight and received oilers of employment from various universities. But something disturbed him: despite its immediate acclaim, his theory of relativity does not fit with what we know about gravity, namely, with how things fall. He came to realize this when writing an article summarizing his theory and began to wonder if the law of “universal gravity” as formulated by the father of physics himself, Isaac Newton, was in need of revision in order to make it compatible with the new concept of relativity. He immersed himself in the problem. It would take ten years to resolve. Ten years of frenzied studies, attempts, errors, confusion, mistaken articles, brilliant ideas, misconceived ideas.