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The order of time

The order of time
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Dewey Class 530
Title The order of time (M) / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
Author Rovelli, Carlo , 1956-
Added Personal Name Segre, Erica
Carnell, Simon
Edition statement First American edition
Publication New York : Riverhead Books , 2018
Physical Details 240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN 9780735216105
Note Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
Contents note Perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery. Part I. The crumbling of time. Loss of unity. Loss of direction. The end of the present. Loss of independence. Quanta of time. Part II. The world without time. The world is made of events, not things. The inadequacy of grammar. Dynamics as relation. Part III. The sources of time. Time is ignorance. Perspective. What emerges from a particularity. The scent of the Madeleine. The source of time. The sister of sleep
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