Bibliograph

The order of time, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell

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The order of time, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The order of time

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1020300173

Responsibility statement

Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Preface : perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery -- The crumbling of time -- Loss of unity -- Loss of direction -- The end of the present -- Loss of independence -- Quanta of time -- The world without time -- The world is made of events, not things -- The inadequacy of grammar -- Dynamics as relation -- The sources of time -- Time is ignorance -- Perspective -- What emerges from a particularity -- The scent of the madeleine -- The source of time

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