Carlo Rovelli's brilliant new book White Holes asks surprising questions ... This is a beautiful little book, by a celebrated physicist and writer, about a phenomenon that is permitted by equations but might not actually exist. Or perhaps white holes do exist, and are everywhere: we just haven't noticed them yet ... What elevates this book is the author's supernatural concision, and his artistic and philosophical elegance: he is constantly quoting Dante's Inferno, and insists on a highly cultured view of science in which the literary art of analogy is just as important as logic and mathematics Steven Poole Telegraph
Carlo Rovelli is an internationally acclaimed writer whose books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time and Helgoland, have been number one bestsellers around the world and translated into over forty languages. As a theoretical physicist, he has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time and he is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France.