The order of time
Book |
Riverhead Books,
New York :
2018.
- 1 of 2 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Port Colborne Library
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Colborne | 530.11 ROV | Adult Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
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.
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- ISBN: 9780735216105
- ISBN: 073521610X
- Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmprint
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
- General Note: LSC 27.00Translation from the Italian of: L'ordine del tempo.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
- 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.