Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time - and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves. With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli review a worthy heir to Stephen Hawking Read more These factors have an urgent relevance, he suggests, for the scientists and citizens and policymakers of today. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations.
Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. The Order of Time speaks to this understanding of time(s) as something situated and relational, examining world-building at infinite resolutions from the subatomic to the cosmological.
He has worked in Italy and the United States and currently directs the. Physicist and author Carlo Rovelli reminds us that in physics, there is no future or past everything understood remains in the ever-present. We are longing for a future that will not come' Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist' John Banville 'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
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