{"id":8540,"date":"2014-06-28T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:07","slug":"carlo-rovelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/06\/carlo-rovelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon Fr\u00e8re Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like many things about France, including their physicists.\u00a0 I am a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr\/~rovelli\/\">Carlo Rovelli<\/a>, of the Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy in Marseille, France.\u00a0 I like the questions this man asks and answers.\u00a0 Among them (free for anyone to explore at <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/find\/grp_physics\/1\/au:+rovelli\/0\/1\/0\/past\/0\/1\">arxiv.org<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How many quanta are there in a quantum spacetime?<\/li>\n<li>Aristotle&#8217;s physics<\/li>\n<li>Forget time<\/li>\n<li>Why gauge?<\/li>\n<li>Death and resurrection of the zeroth principle of thermodynamics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I first met Carlo Rovelli in the pages of &#8220;<span id=\"btAsinTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Physics-Meets-Philosophy-Planck-Scale\/dp\/0521664454\">Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale<\/a>&#8221; which I am proud to own.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe that my copy of this book would go for $150 now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like many things about France, including their physicists.\u00a0 I am a fan of Carlo Rovelli, of the Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy in Marseille, France.\u00a0 I like the questions this man asks and answers.\u00a0 Among them (free for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/06\/carlo-rovelli\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8598,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions\/8598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}