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Carlo Rovelli and the physics of lockdown: ‘Not moving is paradise’ – Financial Times
A quieter life has allowed the popular science writer more time to puzzle over black holes — and enjoy his new Canadian home

Carlo Rovelli takes a break from thinking about what might happen inside a black hole, his current preoccupation as a theoretical physicist, to appear on my computer screen from his Canadian home in London, Ontario. He immediately praises my soft background of a rather messy bookcase — in contrast to the hard brick wall behind him.
But Rovelli, who has emerged recently as the greatest contemporary populariser of physics, can shift scene almost as fast as a particle in a quantum experiment. He swiftly…
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