The order of time / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.
By: Rovelli, Carlo [author.].
Contributor(s): Segre, Erica [translator.] | Carnell, Simon [translator.].
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, ©2018Edition: First American edition.Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780735216105 (hardcover).Uniform titles: Ordine del tempo. English Subject(s): Space and time | Time | Presentism (Philosophy) | CosmologyGenre/Form: Print books.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.--Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | QC173.59.S65 R6813 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013266 |
Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.--