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- Author: Carlo Rovelli
- Page Length: 252
- "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."
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| Author | Carlo Rovelli |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Publication date | May 8, 2018 |
| Print length | 252 pages |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars / 2,503 ratings |
| Sold by | Penguin Group (USA) LLC |
| Great on Kindle | ✅ |
| Price | $9.00 lower (%75 savings) than the regular price of $11.99 |
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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, Reality Is Not What It Seems, and Helgoland, 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.
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Imagine a lifetime of 85 years represented by a large pile of 85 pennies, one per year. As each year passes a penny is spent. At 20 years old the pile still seems large, 65 pennies. Plenty of time left. Time passes slowly. At 60 years old, there are only 15 pennies left and each year the pile rapidly diminishes. Time passes quickly.
"The idea that a well-defined now exists throughout the universe is an illusion, an illegitimate extrapolation of our own experience."
"In short, the common present does not exist; the temporal structure of spacetime is not a stratification of time. It is, rather, a structure made up entirely of light cones."
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Snow Crash, also $3, on the other hand...
Snow Crash, also $3, on the other hand...
I felt the author rambled a lot. The book was recommended by my trade association CEO, but I couldn't get into it.