Carlo Rovelli, best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, is back with a new book, The Order of Time. This latest venture offers insight into the notion of time, including narratives on how our understanding of the concept has changed from antiquity to the present, as well as a concise update on how time is understood today through the lens of quantum mechanics.
Ordered into three parts in which Rovelli, a theoretical physicist and philosopher, gradually deconstructs and rebuilds our picture of time, the book is a nice follow-up to his last title, Reality Is Not What It Seems. In that book, the author briefly explored what his work on quantum gravity implies about the concept of time but left the topic open for further thought.
This book leads on by tackling some of the most fundamental questions one could ask about the nature of the universe: “Why do we remember the past and not the future? Do we exist in time, or does time exist in us? What does it really mean to say that time ‘passes’?”
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