Science and magic are opposites, is often the idea.These books prove the opposite and make your world mesmerizing in one fell swoop.

Every animal has its own eye. But that's not true. Their view of things in this world is quite different from ours. Often, they see brighter and sharper and can even perceive ultraviolet rays. Other animals just see the world distorted and blurry again. The title An Immense World resonates well with the reading experience of this new, monumental work: in thirteen generously filled chapters, Yong guides readers through animal smells, flavors, light, color, pain, heat, sound, echoes and the Earth's electrical and magnetic field sensors. He ends his wonderful book with an important plea for silence and darkness. Because humans are so visual (and selfish), this species has poisoned the Earth with light pollution and noise, which affects many other animals, which are not so visual.

In this book, which defies our ability to think, Rovelli shows that our understanding of reality has changed over the centuries, from Democritus to loop quantum gravity. He takes us on an amazing journey and invites us into a whole new world where black holes are about to explode, spacetime is grains, and infinity does not exist — a vast and still undiscovered universe.

A journey into the world of quantum gravity

What is reality? Do space and time really exist?

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