How to keep a free and open mind? (Replay)

Carlo Rovelli. © Geoffroy Mathieu / Opale / Leemage / Flammarion

By: Caroline Lachowsky

How to keep a free and open mind? Meeting with the physicist and philosopher Carlo Rovelli, co-inventor of the theory of loop quantum gravity and formidable obstacle to thinking in circles.

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Carlo Rovelli , inventor of the highly promising loop quantum gravity theory, is a free and curious mind. As keen on science as he is on humanity, this pioneer of the quantum world has no equal when it comes to broadening our perspective, by shaking up all our certainties (and even our uncertainties), especially on time ...

With Carlo Rovelli , theoretical physicist at the University of Marseille. His Seven Short Lessons in Physics (O. Jacob, 2015) were a worldwide success, before L'Ordre du temps (Flammarion, 2018, Champs 2019). His new work Écrits Vagabonds has just been published by Flammarion.

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