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A hundred narrow pages are enough to explain the physics of modernity. Where do we come from? What can we know? Since their groundbreaking discoveries in the twentieth century, physicists have been tracing the forces and particles that hold the world together at its core and its surface. Carlo Rovelli has written this enchanting book about it in a way that is accessible to everyone. It surged to the top of the Italian bestseller list within weeks and is currently being translated into nearly twenty languages. In elegant, clear sentences, Rovelli explains modern physics: Einstein and the theory of relativity, Max Planck and quantum mechanics, the origin of the universe, black holes, elementary particles, the nature of space and time – and loop theory, his own field of work. A book that anyone can understand – a reading pleasure for wonder, enjoyment, and conversation. “By nature, we always want to know more and learn further. Our knowledge of the world is growing. We are driven by the urge for understanding, and as we learn, we encounter limits. In the deepest depths of the fabric of space, at the origin of the cosmos, in the essence of time, in the fate of black holes, and in the functioning of our own thinking. Here, at the boundaries of our knowledge, where the sea of our ignorance opens up before us, the mystery of the world shines, the beauty of the world, and it takes our breath away,” writes Carlo Rovelli.