The Order of Time

Author: Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

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The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' ( Sunday Times )

Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

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The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' ( Sunday Times )

Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

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The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times)Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.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.

Critic Reviews

“The physicist transforming how we see the universe”

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 -- John Banville Irish Times
Wonderful. . . Time is something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how profoundly strange it really is -- Philip Pullman Guardian

Full of staggering revelations... I could (and will) read and think about such things again and again until they begin to sink in

-- Maggie Nelson 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 -- Nick Hornby 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 -- James McConnachie Sunday Times
A dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning everything I thought I knew about time -- Charlotte Higgins 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

About the Author

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.