Even more fascinatingly, though this space-time fabric is ostensibly smooth and continuous, it gets deformed by the presence of matter and energy. Rather, time is only one part of the dual all-permeating fabric of the universe, woven together with space. To use an analogy, time isn’t really a river, and we don’t inhabit it like fish swimming in the water. That being said, nothing works quite as counterintuitively as time.Īs physicists discovered only recently – that is, at the beginning of the 20th century – as much as time appears to be a uniform, universally flowing “thing,” it is, in fact, anything but. Moreover, it spins around the sun, even though it seems the other way around. For example, the Earth is spherical, and yet it appears to be flat. Reality is often very different from what it seems. Get ready to join him in a quest to solve nature’s greatest and most profound mystery! The crumbling of time In his 200-page wonder of a book “The Order of Time,” he simultaneously annihilates our commonsense understanding of time and elucidates its true, utterly baffling nature, and does so in a dizzying, poetic manner. “If nobody asks me,” he realized, “I feel like I know but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I do not know.” Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli doesn’t have this problem: not only does he know more about time than almost anyone on this planet, but he is, arguably, one of history’s most exceptional communicators of complex and counterintuitive scientific concepts. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time - and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.Thousands of years ago, St. With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. We are longing for a future that will not come' We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons.
Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist' John Banville 'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
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