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The order of time
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- ISBN: 9780735216129
- ISBN: 9780735216105
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Physical Description:
240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in Italy by Aldephi Edizioni SPA under the title L'ordine del tempo, 2017"--Copyright page. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Language Note: | In English, translated from the Italian. |
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| Subject: | Cosmology Presentism (Philosophy) Time Space and time |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Howe Library | 530.11 ROV
Memorial: The Edward Connery Lathem & Elizabeth French Lathem Fund.
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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"--