The order of time [electronic resource] / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780525626091
- Physical Description: 1 sound file : digital
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
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| General Note: | Electronic audio file. Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2018 Available via World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Cosmology. Presentism (Philosophy) Space and time. Time. |
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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.--
