The Order of Time - Paperback

Carlo Rovelli argues that time is not what we think it is. Physics written with a poet's precision and a philosopher's wonder.

We experience time as a flow, a river carrying us from past to future. Physics says otherwise. Rovelli builds from thermodynamics through relativity to quantum mechanics, showing that time is not fundamental. There is no now. The future is not open. We are confused about what time is, and that confusion shapes how we live.

Physicists read this for the clarity of Rovelli's explanation of where physics breaks the intuitions we live by. Philosophers read it as a meditation on what happens to meaning when time isn't real. Faculty in physics and philosophy assign it to provoke students who think physics has nothing to say about how we should live.

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- Paperback
- Physics, thermodynamics, relativity, time, philosophy