This festive season put White Holes in your friends’ stockings – make a ladder of them. White Holes is a miniature masterpiece, a small book the size of an old fashioned cigarette packet by one of the most entertaining scientists on the planet, the Italian quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli.
What is a White Hole? Do they really exist? Albert Einstein would have had his doubts – he questioned the mathematics of Black Holes at times. This led to his famous quip about the speculative nature of quantum science: “The Almighty doesn’t play dice.” To which the great Neils Bohr, a top hero for Rovelli, replied, “leave the almighty one to get on with what he does best.”
