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The Order of Time -- Carlo Rovelli, Hardcover
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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.
Author: Carlo Rovelli
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780735216105
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2018 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2018
Library Journal 05/15/2018 pg. 73
Publishers Weekly 05/07/2018
Shelf Awareness 06/08/2018
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.
Author: Carlo Rovelli
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780735216105
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2018 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2018
Library Journal 05/15/2018 pg. 73
Publishers Weekly 05/07/2018
Shelf Awareness 06/08/2018
About the Author
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist, the head of the Quantum Gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille University and one of the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory. His previous books include Seven Brief Lessons on Physics--an international bestseller translated into more than forty languages--and Reality Is Not What It Seems.
Product Tags:
Carlo Rovelli, Cosmology, Hardcover, Physics, Relativity, Riverhead Books, Science, Space Science, Time
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