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_aRovelli, Carlo, _d1956- _eauthor. _93281 |
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_aOrdine del tempo. _lEnglish |
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_aThe order of time / _cCarlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. |
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_aNew York : _bRiverhead Books, _c2018. |
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_a240 pages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm |
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500 | _aOriginally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017). | ||
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_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. |
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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. | ||
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_aSpace and time. _963152 |
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_aTime. _931174 |
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_aPresentism (Philosophy) _9352410 |
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_aCosmology. _926736 |
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_aSegre, Erica, _etranslator. _9297984 |
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_aCarnell, Simon, _d1962- _etranslator. _9297983 |
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