
The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli
Rovelli dismantles the intuition that time flows uniformly, showing physics reveals it slows, stops, and may not exist fundamentally. Time is thermodynamic blurring.
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by Carlo Rovelli
Rovelli dismantles the intuition that time flows uniformly, showing physics reveals it slows, stops, and may not exist fundamentally. Time is thermodynamic blurring.
In this collection, The Order of Time references 1 other book and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on A Brief History of Time.
It’s picked up by Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution.
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Rovelli references Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
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Helgoland extends the relational argument Rovelli first developed in The Order of Time, applying the same 'properties exist only in interactions' thesis from time to matter itself.
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The Demon-Haunted World
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The Trouble with Physics
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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