There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness (2022): New book by physicist Carlo Rovelli

A May 5, 2022 New York Times article (which I’ve accessed through the Toronto Public Library) is entitled: “Searching for What Connects Us, Carlo Rovelli Explores Beyond Physics.”

An excerpt reads:

The nature of time. Black holes. Ancient philosophers. The struggle for democracy. Climate change. Buddhist philosophy. In his new collection of essays and articles, Carlo Rovelli, one of the world’s most renowned physicists, broadens his writing to include questions of politics, justice and how we live now.

“I look at myself as much more than a physicist,” he said in an interview at his home in London, Ontario, on a cold, calm day in February. The new book, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness,” published by Riverhead on May 10, is the result of all his “wandering around and being curious in this space of culture at large,” he added.

There is a thread, however, through the myriad topics he covers: the interdependence of all things — and what makes that interdependence profound.