The Resource The order of time, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
The order of time, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 229 pages (large print)
- Note
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- Regular print version previously published by: Riverhead Books
- Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017)
- Contents
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- Preface : 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
- Isbn
- 9781683249122
- Label
- The order of time
- Title
- The order of time
- Statement of responsibility
- Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
- Language
-
- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rovelli, Carlo
- Dewey number
- 530.11
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- In English, translated from the Italian
- LC call number
- QC173.59.S65
- LC item number
- R6813 2018b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Segre, Erica
- Carnell, Simon
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Space and time
- Time
- Presentism (Philosophy)
- Cosmology
- SCIENCE / Cosmology
- SCIENCE / Physics
- SCIENCE / Time
- Large type books
- Cosmology
- Large type books
- Presentism (Philosophy)
- Space and time
- Time
- Label
- The order of time, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
- Note
-
- Regular print version previously published by: Riverhead Books
- Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface : 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
- Control code
- on1043050536
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 229 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781683249122
- Lccn
- 2018024545
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1043050536
- Label
- The order of time, Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
- Note
-
- Regular print version previously published by: Riverhead Books
- Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan : Adelphi Edizioni, 2017)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface : 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
- Control code
- on1043050536
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Center Point Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 229 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781683249122
- Lccn
- 2018024545
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1043050536
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