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Carlo Rovelli

Italian physicist · Italy · Scientists · Born 1956 · age 70

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Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States, France, and Canada.

A life in dates

2020“Quite remarkably, this was understood before having good clocks... It is one of great intuitions by Einstein. In 1915 he completed the theory of relativity...”In their words10 April 2020. A source.

“GPS... gets messages from satellites. On those satellites are clocks... The satellites broadcast the times and your little device use the time to tringulate wherever you are...”In their words10 April 2020. A source.

“What makes the difference is the mass. ...The earth is a big mass and it slows down time. If you go to a bigger mass, like Jupiter, it's stronger.”In their words10 April 2020. A source.

“Time is much more elastic than our intuition of this rigid passage... The time interval between one point and another... depends on where you are.”In their words10 April 2020. A source.

2018“Hawking was one of the good physicists of his generation, not the universal genius the popular press has depicted.”In their words"Carlo Rovelli on Schrödinger, God and physics being ‘better than LSD’". The Irish Times. 2018.

“The idea that a well-defined now exists throughout the universe is an illusion, an illegitimate extrapolation of our own experience”In their wordsp. 44

1956Born3 May 1956

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10 statements, newest first

  1. If I move one watch, put it higher, and wait a little bit... with very good clocks, and today we can...

    Apr 10, 2020, . A source., Own words

  2. Quite remarkably, this was understood before having good clocks... It is one of great intuitions by Einstein. In 1915 he completed the theory of relativity...

    Apr 10, 2020, . A source., Own words

  3. GPS... gets messages from satellites. On those satellites are clocks... The satellites broadcast the times and your little device use the time to tringulate wherever you are...

    Apr 10, 2020, . A source., Own words

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About this person

Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States, France, and Canada. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Marseille in France, a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Western University in Canada, and Fractal Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in The United States.

Country
Italy
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1956 · age 70

Scientists from Italy 6

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