The Order of Time
Autor Carlo Rovellien Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 dec 2019
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, and Helgoland, 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780735216112
ISBN-10: 0735216118
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 121 x 185 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0735216118
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 121 x 185 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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Notă biografică
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 United States and currently directs the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France. His books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Helgoland, are international bestsellers that have been translated into more than fifty languages.
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Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist
A dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time
Wonderful. . . Time is something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really is
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
I consider Carlo Rovelli to be a poet as much as a physicist. . . Everybody should read this book
A joy to read. . . Rovelli writes easily, vividly and brilliantly - he is as at ease with Beethoven as he is with Boltzmann's constant, and verses by Horace launch each chapter, one of which ends with a couplet from the Grateful Dead. . . A delight
A deep - and remarkably readable - dive into the fundamental nature of time. . . written with enough charm and poetry to engage the imagination of anyone who reads it
Highly original. . . The heart and humanity of the book, its poetry and its gentle tone raise it to the level and style of such great scientist-writers as Lewis Thomas and Rachel Carson
Rovelli is one of our great scientific explicators. . . Not since Stephen Hawking'sA Brief History of Timehas there been so genial an integration of physics and philosophy
Physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time. . .The Order of Timewill surely establish Rovelli among the pantheon of great scientist-communicators
An elegantly concise primer makes theoretical physics intelligible. . . stunningly written
A masterly writer. . . In this little gem of a book, Mr. Rovelli demolishes our common-sense notion of time. . . an ambitious book that illuminates a thorny question and succeeds in being a pleasurable read
Carlo Rovelli has achieved almost prophetic status
The physicist transforming how we see the universe
With the publication of his million-sellingSeven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern theoretical physics
The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest explainer of physics
Anyone with the least interest in the science of the physical world will be by turns astonished, baffled and thrilled by what Rovelli has to say about the true nature of time, which has little in common with our everyday conception of it
Enlightening... gives poetic voice to the common human experience of moving through time, while simultaneously leaving the reader much more equipped to understand how exactly that happens. . . A resounding affirmation of the humanity behind science
This book has been a kind of bible for me.When life feels strange, Rovelli's books remind me that there is beauty in the strangeness.The Order of Timeis one of those books that I will always go back to
Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist
A dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time
Wonderful. . . Time is something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really is
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
I consider Carlo Rovelli to be a poet as much as a physicist. . . Everybody should read this book
A joy to read. . . Rovelli writes easily, vividly and brilliantly - he is as at ease with Beethoven as he is with Boltzmann's constant, and verses by Horace launch each chapter, one of which ends with a couplet from the Grateful Dead. . . A delight
A deep - and remarkably readable - dive into the fundamental nature of time. . . written with enough charm and poetry to engage the imagination of anyone who reads it
Highly original. . . The heart and humanity of the book, its poetry and its gentle tone raise it to the level and style of such great scientist-writers as Lewis Thomas and Rachel Carson
Rovelli is one of our great scientific explicators. . . Not since Stephen Hawking'sA Brief History of Timehas there been so genial an integration of physics and philosophy
Physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time. . .The Order of Timewill surely establish Rovelli among the pantheon of great scientist-communicators
An elegantly concise primer makes theoretical physics intelligible. . . stunningly written
A masterly writer. . . In this little gem of a book, Mr. Rovelli demolishes our common-sense notion of time. . . an ambitious book that illuminates a thorny question and succeeds in being a pleasurable read
Carlo Rovelli has achieved almost prophetic status
The physicist transforming how we see the universe
With the publication of his million-sellingSeven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern theoretical physics
The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest explainer of physics
Anyone with the least interest in the science of the physical world will be by turns astonished, baffled and thrilled by what Rovelli has to say about the true nature of time, which has little in common with our everyday conception of it
Enlightening... gives poetic voice to the common human experience of moving through time, while simultaneously leaving the reader much more equipped to understand how exactly that happens. . . A resounding affirmation of the humanity behind science
This book has been a kind of bible for me.When life feels strange, Rovelli's books remind me that there is beauty in the strangeness.The Order of Timeis one of those books that I will always go back to
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"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, 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.