Carlo Rovelli on the ‘greatest remaining mystery’: The nature of time
Disclaimer: I&#x27;m a physicist who didn&#x27;t finish the Phd and went to work in the tech field instead.<p>I wish physicists would stop writing these bullshitty popular science books. A lot of the books are popularizing unverified &#x2F; unverifiable things like String Theory or Multiverse or Arrow of Time. And when they&#x27;re talking about more plain things like Special Relativity, then I still cringe, because it&#x27;s not something that&#x27;s worth explaining to lay people: there is no situation in which some high-level bullshitty understanding of GR or SR or QM will be helpful or relevant in life, at best it will confuse you.<p>It is a good and necessary thing to tell students about this, so some of them become physicists, but you don&#x27;t need popular science books for that, it should happen in schools, for free.<p>If you&#x27;re going to speak about Physics to lay people, at least do it it in a way that&#x27;s relevant to them, eg. look at how Feynman taught Physics. Explain how a boomerang works, or how thermodynamics relates to photosynthesis.