240 pages :illustrations ;20 cm
Originally published in Italian as L'ordine del tempo: Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery --Loss of unity --Loss of direction --The end of the present --Loss of independence --Quanta of time --The world is made of events, not things --The inadequacy of grammar --Dynamics as relation --Time is ignorance --Perspective --What emerges from a particularity --The scent of the madeleine --The source of time --The sister of sleep.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
1. Space and time. 2. Time. 3. Presentism (Philosophy) 4. Cosmology. Dynamic Details