The Order of Time
eBook - 2018
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 myst...erious 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...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 3 GB |
ISBN | 9780735216129 |
Release Date | 5/8/2018 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B07638M8JL |
Release Date | 5/8/2018 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 3 GB |
ISBN | 9780735216129 |
Release Date | 5/8/2018 |