I like many things about France, including their physicists. I am a fan of Carlo Rovelli, of the Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy in Marseille, France. I like the questions this man asks and answers. Among them (free for anyone to explore at arxiv.org):
- How many quanta are there in a quantum spacetime?
- Aristotle’s physics
- Forget time
- Why gauge?
- Death and resurrection of the zeroth principle of thermodynamics
I first met Carlo Rovelli in the pages of “Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale” which I am proud to own. I can’t believe that my copy of this book would go for $150 now.
Addendum: I discovered that Carlo Rovelli is also an affiliated professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Another good reason to like him.