The Order of Time
Autor Carlo Rovellien Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2018
'A dazzling book . . . the new Stephen Hawking' -Sunday Times
'Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book' - John Banville
The bestselling author ofSeven Brief Lessons on Physicstakes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time
'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.'
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. 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. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. 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.
With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling,The Order of Timeshows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time -- and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.
Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241292522
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 117 x 188 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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 US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Reality Is Not What It Seems are international bestsellers translated into forty-one languages.
Recenzii
Rovelli is a wonderful writer. . . The ideas inThe Order of Timeare extraordinary, and I rather fear you should read it
I consider Carlo Rovelli to be a poet as much as a physicist. . . Everybody should read this book
A dazzling book. . . 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
The superstar physicist who wants to make science accessible to all
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 dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time
Physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time. . .The Order of Timewill surely establish Rovelli among the pantheon of great scientist-communicators. . . More of this please
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
We live in an age of wonderful science writing, and Carlo Rovelli'sThe Order of Time, is an example of the very best. Time is something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really is
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
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
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
Descriere
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'A dazzling book . . . the new Stephen Hawking' - Sunday Times
'Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book' - John Banville
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time
'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.'
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. 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. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. 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.
With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. 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.
Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre