Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli  ## Metadata - Author: **Carlo Rovelli** - Full Title: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Category: #books ## Highlights - Some philosophers, the most devoted followers of Heidegger among them, conclude that physics is incapable of describing the most fundamental aspects of reality, and dismiss it as a misleading form of knowledge. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hzes0vqke8e7cz8mc8fjypjz)) ## New highlights added March 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM - The fundamental phenomenon that distinguishes the future from the past is the fact that heat passes from things that are hotter to things that are colder. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jqj9cx2k23xzygjdwraz6ath)) - Heat does not move from hot things to cold things due to an absolute law: it only does so with a large degree of probability. The reason for this is that it is statistically more probable that a quickly moving atom of the hot substance collides with a cold one and leaves it a little of its energy, rather than vice versa. Energy is conserved in the collisions, but tends to get distributed in more or less equal parts when there are many collisions. In this way the temperature of objects in contact with each other tends to equalize. It is not impossible for a hot body to become hotter through contact with a colder one: it is just extremely improbable. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jqj9ek67wfx3rhsq5vj2mshf))