The Order of Time (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times
From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, comes a concise, elegant exploration of time.
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe.
Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
Customer Reviews
Demystifying time, complex yet clear
Time is not something we often give much concerted thought to. Yet it is the driver of everything we know have known, and will know. This book helps connect the fundamental building blocks of the universe, weaving together the story of time, entropy, and quantum physics in a way that somehow makes an even more complex concept become simpler. The theoretical in many manners, much of all of these concepts are, and even if not factually accurate, the intuitive sense gives me faith and comfort in realizing there may be simple explanations to the less complex topics, the blend of philosophy with science creates an approachable yet confident idea that makes the infinite unknowingness of the universe feel all right and safe. It doesn't shy away from the reality of being a human, but embraces the forces of nature and our desperate attempts to wrangle with them to be in the little time we have here.
so good
one of the best
Do not recommend
Half way through and still waiting for him to get to the point. Maybe there is no point?