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On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli review – a physicist’s guide to life, the universe and everything

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Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves Under the letter “B” in the index at the back of Carlo Rovelli’s latest book you will find Francis Bacon, bats, behaviourism, Henri Bergson, and the big bang. This intriguing little miscellany reflects the sweeping ambition of what is perhaps Rovelli’s most overtly philosophical work to date . Rovelli, who directs a quantum gravity research group in Marseille, has written several books on physics for the general reader, including the global bestseller Seven Brief Lessons on Physics . His latest is an attempt to integrate principles and theories from the discipline into a broader W eltanschauung : one of the essential unity of all things, and the profoundly relational and perspectival nature of the universe. “Electrons and minds, stones and laws, judgments and galaxies do not essentially differ in nature from one another,” he writes. “They are notions that illuminate each o