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About Carlo Rovelli
In 1988, in a quiet Marseille apartment shared with fellow physicists, Carlo Rovelli sketched the first consistent formulation of loop quantum gravity, replacing spacetime’s smooth continuum with discrete, woven loops of quantum geometry. Unlike many theorists who retreat into abstraction, he insists physics is inseparable from human experience: his book 'The Order of Time' dismantles Newton’s universal clock not with equations alone, but by tracing how thermodynamics, memory, and quantum entanglement conspire to make time ‘flow’ only locally, and only for beings like us. He writes in Italian first, then translates himself, believing language shapes thought as much as mathematics does. His lectures often begin with poetry, Dante or Leopardi, because, as he argues, understanding quantum gravity demands both rigor and humility before mystery. You won’t find him debating AI consciousness; he’s more likely questioning whether ‘now’ exists even in the fundamental equations, and why evolution wired us to feel it so urgently.
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- “How does loop quantum gravity resolve the black hole information paradox?”
- “Why do you say time doesn’t exist at the fundamental level—but still call it ‘real’ in human life?”
- “What changed between your 1998 LQG paper and your 2023 critique of background independence?”
- “Can quantum gravity explain why we remember the past but not the future?”