As the science that describes the ingredients of our reality and how they interact, physics can make a strong claim to helping us understand our surroundings. But what about the making of meaning more ...

I have a book on my shelf called Physics and Ultimate Reality. The title perfectly expresses the dream many physicists like me have when we begin our studies as young students. We yearn for perfect, ...

Leading physicist Carlo Rovelli is optimistic about the future of humanity - if we can make the right choices ...

Some physicists, mind you, not many of them, are physicist-poets. They see the world or, more adequately, physical reality, as a lyrical narrative written in some hidden code that the human mind can ...

We should stop trying to use physics to understand the fundamental nature of reality because it cannot unify all the different properties of reality that we experience ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest House & Home news every morning. Carlo Rovelli takes a break from thinking about what might happen inside a black hole, his current ...

In his latest brief but dazzling journey to the edges of understanding, the theoretical physicist takes us into the heart of a black hole and out the other side I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief ...

Joseph Peschel is a freelance writer and critic in South Dakota. No one writes about the cosmos like theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli. He may not be as well known in the United States as the late ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Non-Fiction news every morning. In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus redefined our place in the cosmos. The mathematician and ...

Carlo Rovelli is a romantic. He’d be the first to admit it. Actually, scratch that: he’d be the second. “My girlfriend always says, ‘In a couple, at least one of the two should be romantic,’” the ...