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

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The order of time

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Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell

Time tends to be considered uniform and universal, but it may be much more complicated than that. In fact, the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it becomes. In lyric, accessible prose, Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle the best minds

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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