The order of time
By: Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
Contributors: Segre, Erica, translator; Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780735216105
Subjects: Time; Presentism (Philosophy); Space and time; Cosmology
Work titles: Ordine del tempo
Description: 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.--
Notes: Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

Translation from the Italian of: L'ordine del tempo.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery; title: The crumbling of time; title: Loss of unity; title: Loss of direction; title: The end of the present; title: Loss of independence; title: Quanta of time; title: The world without time; title: The world is made of events, not things; title: The inadequacy of grammar; title: Dynamics as relation; title: The sources of time; title: Time is ignorance; title: Perspective; title: What emerges from a particularity; title: The scent of the madeleine; title: The source of time.