Why films like Avengers: Endgame can get away with time travel tricks
15 May 2019
In his monthly film column, Simon Ings finds that invoking the quantum world is a great way out for Avengers-style franchises when they want to mess with time
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Found 78 results for Carlo Rovelli
What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?
16 April 2019
From wormhole passages to white hole escape routes, no one knows for certain what lurks beyond a black hole’s event horizon – so choose your own unsettling fate
Time Tries All Things review – Take time out to enjoy a dreamlike show
30 January 2019
String theory, triangulation, relativity - who cares if physicists trying to explain time have reached an impasse? A new show presses pause on hunting for answers
If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind
12 December 2018
White holes are black ones in reverse, spewing out matter– and they could give us our first glimpse of the quantum source of space-time, says physicist Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time
27 November 2018
We all experience time passing, but why? Carlo Rovelli reveals why time is more complex than intuition suggests; it may not exist at all
10 mysteries of the universe: What came before the big bang?
19 September 2018
Searing bursts of radio waves first spotted a decade ago could come from bouncing black holes – and that suggests a universe might have existed before ours
How to think about... Time
27 June 2018
Physics says that our perception of smoothly flowing time is a cosmic accident. So why do we think the future always comes after the past?
Enjoy a season of science with our 2018 UK festival picks
6 June 2018
Stumble into surprises all over the UK, from the physics of gin at WOMAD and mind-reading at Green Man to time deconstructed at New Scientist Live
Enjoy a season of science with our 2018 UK festival picks
1 June 2018
Stumble into surprises all over the UK, from the physics of gin at WOMAD, to mind-reading at Green Man, to time deconstructed at New Scientist Live
Carlo Rovelli: physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time
18 April 2018
The Order of Time, an elegant demolition job of our ideas about the subject, looks set to become the latest bestseller from the cultured mind of Carlo Rovelli
