02478cam a2200349 i 4500 975946155 TxAuBib 20231113120000.0 230425s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023015753 9780593545447 HRD 26.00 0593545443 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda eng ita Rovelli, Carlo, 1956-, author White holes,. Buchi bianchi English. White holes [BOOK] / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell. First North American edition. New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. 158 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole’s core, space and time dissolve, and a white hole is born. Rovelli has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general relativity and the perplexing uncertainties of quantum mechanics. In White Holes, he reveals the mind of a scientist at work. He traces the ongoing adventure of his own cutting-edge research, investigating whether all black holes could eventually turn into white holes, equally compact objects in which the arrow of time is reversed. He shares the fear, uncertainty, and frequent disappointment of exploring hypotheses and unknown worlds, and the delight of chasing new ideas to unexpected conclusions. Guiding us beyond the horizon, he invites us to experience the fever and the disquiet of science—and the strange and startling life of a white hole. -Provided by publisher. Originally published in Italy as Buchi bianchi by Adelphi Edizioni, Milan, in 2023. Simultaneously published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2023. 20231113. White holes (Astronomy) Popular works. Black holes (Astronomy) Popular works. Quantum cosmology Popular works. Carnell, Simon, 1962-, translator.