The Order of Time
By Carlo Rovelli
The Order of Time. Riverhead Books, 2018.
Summary of The Order of Time book by Carlo Rovelli
A theoretical physicist at the cutting edge of scientific thought about gravity explores how common-sense ideas about time and space are just the result of our perspective as humans, illuminating the much stranger reality of how time works.
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What do you get from this book? A brain-bending deep-dive into the hidden reality of time and space
Our notion of how time flows is wrong—it doesn’t occur at the same rate everywhere
How fast or slow you’re going affects your experience of time, which cannot exist without heat
It was Isaac Newton who gave us our idea of time, though Albert Einstein proved his beliefs to be false
“Quantum time” complicates our idea of time even further, demonstrating how indeterminate and discontinuous it really is
Our language disguises the fact that the world is not a collection of things but a sequence of events
Objects “emerge” from the universe rather than just “exist,” while entropy is the real driver of activity in the world
Time may just be a matter of human perspective, but it leaves scars on us called memories
Time belongs to us—our brains have built our experience of it, with emotion at its heart
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- Wannabe astronomers
- those interested in science
- philosophers
- the perpetually late
About the author of The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who specializes in the developing field of quantum gravity, where he works on loop theory. He is a graduate of the University of Bologna and has lectured at Yale and Aix-Marseille. Among his other books are Helgoland (2020) and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2015).
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