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The Order of Time
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. 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. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
SUMMARY - The Order Of Time By Carlo Rovelli
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. As you read this summary, you will learn that time is not uniform and that many of the mysteries surrounding it have been unraveled. You will also learn : that time does not flow the same way in different places and at different speeds; that in fundamental physics, the barrier between past, present and future does not exist; that from a microscopic point of view, time does not flow; that time is elastic and that the present does not exist; that quantum physics can explain why there are traces of the past and not of the future. Human beings are beings of time. However, they have little understanding of the profound nature of time. In this book, Carlo Rovelli, physicist and great name of the looped quantum gravity theory, reviews the state of scientific knowledge on the subject. It is also an opportunity for him to reflect more philosophically on our relationship to time. Are you ready to change your way of seeing things? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
Summary of Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The world is not as it seems to be on the surface. Time passes more slowly in some places than in others. This is because of the modification of the structure of time, which affects the movement of bodies and causes them to fall toward each other. #2 The slowing down of time has many effects, including the falling of objects. It allows us to keep our feet firmly on the ground, because if our feet adhere to the pavement, it is because our entire body inclines naturally to where time runs more slowly. #3 The time that a particular clock measures is called proper time in physics. Every clock has its own proper time. Every phenomenon that occurs has its own proper time, which is different from every other clock’s proper time. #4 The world is not like a platoon marching in step with a single commander. It’s a network of events that affect each other. Time has lost its first aspect, which was its unity. It passes differently here than there.