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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Reality Is Not What It Seems

Mark Meadows

Carlo Rovelli

Sara Davies

Book of the Week: Reality Is Not What It Seems: Episode 2: The Most Beautiful of Theories

Reality Is Not What It Seems

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Most Beautiful of Theories

The Most Beautiful of Theories

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Reality Is Not What It Seems, The Most Beautiful of Theories

In 1905, Albert Einstein formulates the most famous equation of modern science.

In 1905, Albert Einstein published three papers that constructed the pillars of our modern understanding of the world and formulated the most famous equation of modern science.

Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know.

He describes how our understanding of reality has changed throughout the centuries, from the philosophers and scientists of antiquity to contemporary researchers into quantum gravity. 

Episode 2: The Most Beautiful of Theories
In 1905, Albert Einstein published three papers which constructed the pillars of our modern understanding of the world and, in the process, formulated the most famous equation of modern science.

Author: Carlo Rovelli
Reader: Mark Meadows
Abridger/Producer: Sara Davies

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Carlo Rovelli's provocative account of how science affects our understanding of the world

Mark Meadows reads scientist Carlo Rovelli's provocative exploration of how constantly developing scientific knowledge has changed our understanding of the world around us.

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