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008 171226s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng
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035 _a(OCoLC)1020300173
041 1 _aeng
_hita
042 _apcc
092 _a530.11
_bR873
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aRovelli, Carlo,
_d1956-
_eauthor.
_93281
240 1 0 _aOrdine del tempo.
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aThe order of time /
_cCarlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bRiverhead Books,
_c2018.
300 _a240 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
520 _aWhy 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.--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPreface : 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.
546 _aIn English, translated from the Italian.
650 0 _aSpace and time.
_963152
650 0 _aTime.
_931174
650 0 _aPresentism (Philosophy)
_9352410
650 0 _aCosmology.
_926736
700 1 _aSegre, Erica,
_etranslator.
_9297984
700 1 _aCarnell, Simon,
_d1962-
_etranslator.
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994 _aC0
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999 _c268486
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