[Brief] Physicist Carlo Rovelli's New Book Challenges Science's Understanding of Reality
Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has released a new book titled ‘Reality and Shadow: New Horizons in Physics,’ systematically challenging the traditional understanding of the nature of reality, quantum gravity, the arrow of time and the role of the observer in the current physics community. In the book, Rovelli extends his research on relational quantum theory and loop quantum gravity, further proposing the core view that ‘reality is a network of informational relations’ and advocating a shift of physics from an ‘objective-entity’ paradigm to a ‘relational-structure’ paradigm. Since the book’s release, it has attracted wide attention from the international scientific and philosophy-of-science communities, with several well-known physicists and philosophers having publicly responded, some supportive, some skeptical, and some believing that the questions raised by the book are more valuable than the answers given.