With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, art and philosophy, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time.
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique theorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland, Reality Is Not What It Seems and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into forty-three languages.
Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating,
profoundly beautiful book. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane,
gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he
is a scientist
*Irish Times*
Wonderful. . . Time is something we think we know about
instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really
is
*Guardian*
Full of staggering revelations... I could (and will) read and think
about such things again and again until they begin to sink in
*New York Times*
This book has been a kind of bible for me. When life feels strange,
Rovelli's books remind me that there is beauty in the strangeness.
The Order of Time is one of those books that I will always go back
to
*Johny Pitts*
Extraordinary. . . you should read it
*Believer*
Brings the most difficult ideas alive in clear, appealing language.
It is as close as I've come to a physics lesson that almost
suggests the meaning of life
*Rory Stewart*
Meet the new Stephen Hawking. . . I've never seen special
relativity explained so well, never visualised it less fuzzily,
never felt such a jolt of shock at what it implies
*Sunday Times*
A dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning
everything I thought I knew about time
*Guardian*
Enlightening... gives poetic voice to the common human experience
of moving through time, while simultaneously leaving the reader
much more equipped to understand how exactly that happens. . . A
resounding affirmation of the humanity behind science
*Time magazine, Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s*
I consider Carlo Rovelli to be a poet as much as a physicist. . .
Everybody should read this book
*Es Devlin*
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