Carlo Rovelli: ‘My work in physics is endlessly creative’
by Michael Segalov from on (#5KJAC)
The scientist, 65, talks about quantum gravity, LSD, free love, escaping a bear and his lifetime in radical politics
Verona was a beautiful place to grow up, but the town was close-minded and provincial. Dad, a gentle and hard-working man, ran a business. Mum was intelligent and bored - a lethal combination. They encouraged my independence from a young age, which I took too far. At 14, I ran away from home and headed to France, to find like-minded, free-thinking young people.
I took my first acid in Paris aged 16, then hitchhiked across Europe. One night I slept in a small boat I found moored by a pier on the Danube. Lying down to rest underneath the immense, starry sky was the first time I felt true happiness.
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