{"id":2927,"date":"2020-05-24T12:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2020-05-24T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:58:48","slug":"review-seven-brief-lessons-on-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"Review: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carlo Rovelli wrote a series of short essays on physics for the European press recently that <em>Seven Brief Lessons<\/em> collects. They are very short &#8211; a few pages each &#8211; but do a remarkable job introducing and motivating the ideas for a lay audience.  I think I have a reasonable grasp of physics for a lay person and I got a couple new insights on the ideas and their importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re even mildly curious about physics, these are a nice introduction to some of the exciting and evolving areas.  They&#8217;re small enough to read in a few minutes each, which makes <em>Seven Brief Lessons<\/em> is a tasty physics appetizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlo Rovelli wrote a series of short essays on physics for the European press recently that Seven Brief Lessons collects. They are very short &#8211; a few pages each &#8211; but do a remarkable job introducing and motivating the ideas for a lay audience. I think I have a reasonable grasp of physics for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}