Every civilization always has been thinking that the sky is only above our head and below the seat there is earth or more earth. The real story is that the earth is just a big stone that floats and the sky is all around it so the sky continues below our feet. This is really a cosmological evolution is like Copernicus because it changes completely the picture of reality. It's teaching to humanity humankind that look you can rethink reality and get it better.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal is joined by writer, science populariser and theoretical, Carlo Rovelli.
He joins us to talk about the new English translation of his first book, Anaximander.
They all also discuss the singular genius of the philosophers of the past, the importance of questioning our reality, the significance of a typewriter in his writing career, and his admiration for the theoretical physicist John Wheeler.
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