The order of time / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.
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- ISBN: 9780735216105
- Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
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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: | Space and time. Time. Presentism (Philosophy) Cosmology. |
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