Displaying 1 of 1 2018 Format: Book Author: Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author. Title: The order of time / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. Publisher, Date: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018. Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Space and time. Time. Presentism (Philosophy) Cosmology. Other Author: Segre, Erica, translator. Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator. Other Title: Ordine del tempo. English Notes: "First published in Italy by Aldephi Edizioni SPA under the title L'ordine del tempo, 2017"--Copyright page. Includes bibliographical references and index. In English, translated from the Italian. Contents: Perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery -- The crumbling of time -- Loss of unity -- Loss of direction -- The end of the present -- Loss of independence -- Quanta of time -- The world without time -- The world is made of events, not things -- The inadequacy of grammar -- Dynamics as relation -- The sources of time -- Time is ignorance -- Perspective -- What emerges from a particularity -- The scent of the madeleine -- The source of time -- The sister of sleep. LCCN: 2017060293 ISBN: 9780735216105 Other Number: 1020300173 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 723891 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: 530.11 Rovelli Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
