The order of time is one of the most contemplative and revealing books simply because time affects all of us, yet our experiences are not the same. The audiobook is surprisingly easy to listen to, as the book doesn't get technical and it's narrated by...  Read More

The order of time is the third book i've read by carlo rovelli. His book, probably impossibilities, dovetails nicely with rovelli’s work. To read rovelli is to be reassured that there is an order to the universe, and to be greatly disturbed at the imm...  Read More

In his new book, rovelli presents the theoretical physics of time and the universe. The order of time (riverhead books, 2018) is one of the clearest explanations of relativity that i have ever read.

Alan lightman writes of an out-of-body experience where life is “a brief flicker in the vast chasm of time. He sees in this fever dream himself as a “tiny speck, insignificant,” a sensation that is both “liberating and terrifying” for him.

Our minds are collections of atoms “fated to disassemble and dissolve” at the end of our days. Our atomic components continue on to mix with other atoms and form new life, new structures, always renewing and rejuvenating the universe.

It is a hopeless confusion of terms and explanations, all mashed up. It is true that a particle travelling in space-time will have a unique proper time, but this will differ from the age of the particle as measured by a distinct observer. In chapter 2...  Read More

The ignition of nuclear fission opens the door that allows the further increase in hydrogen burning into helium. Am i wrong in believing that this process is fusion, not fission? Is this a mathematical derivation from some other theory?