Carlo Rovelli

1 month ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Carlo Rovelli |Jim Culleny

The Difference Between Things and EventsThings persist in time, events have limited duration. A stone is a thing. We can ask, "Where will it be tomorrow?" Conversely, a kiss is an event. It makes no sense to ask where a kiss will be tomorrow. ................ The world is made up of a network ................ of kisses, not stones:The basic units, the terms by which we comprehend the world, are not in some specific point in space.

1 month ago | audible.com | Kat Johnson |Carlo Rovelli |Brian Greene |Sean Carroll

Note: Text has been lightly edited for clarity and does not match audio exactly. Kat Johnson: Hi, listeners. This is Audible Editor Kat Johnson, and my guest today is Annaka Harris, bestselling author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. She's also an editor and consultant for science writers, the author of the children's book I Wonder, and the creator of wonderful guided meditations for both kids and adults.

2 months ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Carlo Rovelli |Jim Culleny

Entities & HappeningsThe evolution of science suggests that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not permanence, not of being, but of becoming. Think of the world as made up of things, of substances, of entities, of something that is -orthink of it as events, of happenings, of processes, of something that occurs. Something that does not last, that undergoes continual transformation, that is not permanent in time. . .

2 months ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Carlo Rovelli |Jim Culleny

What is There, Where is Nothing? The two interpretations of time (the measure of "when" with regard to events Aristotle wanted; the entity that runs even when nothing happens, according to Newton), can be repeated for space.

2 months ago | es.ara.cat | Hector Morales |Carlo Rovelli |Esther Vera

Investigador en el Centro de Física Teórica de la Universidad de Aix-Marsella Ginebra¿Qué ocurre cuando un agujero negro muere? Según el físico italiano Carlo Rovelli, se podría transformar en su antítesis: un agujero blanco, un objeto al que nada puede acceder. Los agujeros negros son uno de los objetos más misteriosos y sorprendentes del cosmos. Nada que supere la frontera nunca podrá volver a salir.