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The order of time

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An edition of L'ordine del tempo (2017)

The order of time

First American edition.

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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.--

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Riverhead Books
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English
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240

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Space and time, Time, Cosmology, Presentism (Philosophy), fisica, tempo, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2018-05-27, New York Times bestseller

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2000

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Table of Contents

Preface : 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.

Edition 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.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530.11
Library of Congress
QC173.59.S65 R6813 2018, QC173.59.S65R6813

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Pagination
240 pages
Number of pages
240

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OL26952402M
ISBN 10
073521610X
ISBN 13
9780735216105
LCCN
2017060293
OCLC/WorldCat
1020300173

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OL17870579W

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Work Description

L'ordine del tempo
ISBD L' ordine del tempo / Carlo Rovelli. - Milano : Adelphi, 2017. - 207 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - (Piccola biblioteca Adelphi ; 705). - [ISBN] 978-88-459-3192-5.
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Tipo documento Testo a stampa
Collezione
· Piccola biblioteca Adelphi ; 705
Titolo uniforme
· L' ordine del tempo | Rovelli, Carlo <1956- >
Nomi
· [Autore] Rovelli, Carlo <1956- >
Soggetti
· Fisica - Teorie
Classificazione Dewey
· 530.01 (23.) FISICA. Filosofia e teoria
Lingua di pubblicazione ITALIANO
Lingua dell'opera originale ITALIANO
Paese di pubblicazione ITALIA
[Codice identificativo ITICCURMS2813556][2]

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