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carlo rovelli, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen. i want to begin with a thought about your youth, because when you were young, you were a revolutionary. you wanted dramatic change, to destroy the status quo. i just wonder if you ve brought that spirit into your physics, into your study of the universe. yes. it was not.notjust me. it was a big chunk of my generation that had this dream of changing the world, right? and then making a world better without wars, without borders. we got disappointed. we sort of thought, well, the rest of the planet, the rest of the people doesn t really want to change the world so much. and i think it s a moment of disappointment that i found something else which was revolutionary, which was modern physics. so i shifted from political revolution to scientific revolution. and what sense can you describe physics as potentially revolutionary? because we have a worldview in which we think we know everything. right? this is up, this is
last time you and i chatted, linda, you said you were only having one meal a day and you were only putting the heating on for an hour. is that still the same? the heating s more or less the same, but i am eating a bit more. i ve got to, with me health. i have lost weight. for steph, a single working mum with two kids, she s now working an extra day a week, but isn t feeling a financial benefit. how much is childcare now? it s £50 a day. and then, obviously, - because i m a single mum, i have 15 hours free. so my 15 hours cover my monday and half of my tuesday. - so then i have to fund half- of tuesday and my full wednesday. so, despite working an extra day, because of the extra costs of childcare for that day, you re not really any better off, are you? no. the money that i earn for that extra day covers my childcare. it also covers the cost of living, the rise in food costs, - and it covers a rent increase. the government s announced that from september 2025, working paren
a thought about your youth, because when you were young, you were a revolutionary. you wanted dramatic change, to destroy the status quo. i just wonder if you ve brought that spirit into your physics, into your study of the universe. yes. it was not.notjust me. it was a big chunk of my generation that had this dream of changing the world, right? and then making a world better without wars, without borders. we got disappointed. we sort of thought, well, the rest of the planet, the rest of the people doesn t really want to change the world so much. and i think it s a moment of disappointment that i found something else which was revolutionary, which was modern physics. so i shifted from political revolution to scientific revolution. and what sense can you describe physics as potentially revolutionary? because we have a worldview in which we think we know everything. right? this is up, this is down, the earth is flat, nothing is moving. this is solid, continuous. and then we lea
israel s military says it is looking into whether it was operating in the area at the time. daniel clarkey said troops have allowed isolation corridor. translation: allowed isolation corridor. translation: ., ., translation: today the unit and circled the city translation: today the unit and circled the city of translation: today the unit and circled the city of gaza, translation: today the unit and circled the city of gaza, they - circled the city of gaza, they reached the beach at the southern part of the city of gaza and they ve encircled gaza and today we have gaza north and today we have gaza north and gaza south. they ve reached the shoreline, they are hoping the shoreline, they are hoping the shoreline, they are hoping the shoreline, we are still allowing for a corridor to enable the residents of the north of the gaza strip and people of the residents of the city of gaza to go south. it is a one way corridor going south and we will continue to strike forcefully,