Why do we remember the past and not the future? Do we inhabit time or does time inhabit us? What does it mean that time "flies by?" Where does it go when it flies? This transformative, enchanting book will completely change the way we think about time.
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About the Author:
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the U.S., and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France. His Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is an international bestseller translated into 41 languages. He is also the author of Reality Is Not What It Seems and Anaximander.
Review:
The superstar physicist who wants to make science accessible to all * Channel 4 News * A dazzling book. . . Meet the new Stephen Hawking. . . I've never seen special relativity explained so well, never visualised it less fuzzily, never felt such a jolt of shock at what it implies -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times * A dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time -- certainly the idea that it "flows", and even that it exists at all, in any profound sense -- Charlotte Higgins * Guardian * An elegantly concise primer makes theoretical physics intelligible. . . stunningly written -- Tom Whipple * The Times * Physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time. . . The Order of Time will surely establish Rovelli among the pantheon of great scientist-communicators. . . More of this please -- Philip Ball * New Scientist * Rovelli is one of our great scientific explicators. . . Not since Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has there been so genial an integration of physics and philosophy -- Ian Thomson * Observer * The physicist transforming how we see the universe * Financial Times * The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest explainer of physics -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0241292522
- ISBN 13 9780241292525
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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