White Holes
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About This Book
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we'll see geometry fold, we'll feel the equations draw tight around us. Eventually, we'll pass it: the remains of a star, deep and dense and falling further far. And then - the bottom. Where time and space end, and the white hole is born . . . With lightness and magic, here Rovelli traces the ongoing adventure of his own cutting-edge research, of the uncertainty and joy of going where we've not yet been. Guiding us to the edge of theory and experiment, he invites us to go beyond, to experience the fever and the disquiet of science. Here is the extraordinary life of a white hole.
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"As a scientist who is also a popularizer, I often find myself marveling at the acuity of his passages."
"His reflections on how Shakespeare and Dante considered first and last things are a joy."
"There is a confidence to Rovelli's writing."
"Heavy-duty popular science not for the faint of heart."
"Rovelli liberally sprinkles quotes from Dante throughout his slim book exploring the hypothesis that black holes eventually transform into an inverse white hole."
"Rovelli does a solid job of making the underlying science accessible, even if some of the finer points may go over general readers' heads, such as his explanation of why 'you can only enter a black hole, and you can only exit a white hole.' Still, those with a background in physics will be sucked in."
"But if you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with that idea for the first time, then this book is for you."
"Are white holes part of the answer?"
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