They crowd around chaotically, like Italians.'

Here is Mr Rovelli explaining that the events do not follow a precise time that is unvariable:- 'The events of the world do not form an orderly queue, like the English. Or as the poet himself expresses it:- 'A kiss not a stone'. Our world is one of 'becoming', not 'being', of 'events', not 'things'. And given my mark of 5 out of 100 in my school Physics exam it is poetry I need rather than algebraic equations and constant reference to quantum leaps. On the cover of the book Carlo Rovelli is termed 'The Poet of Physics' and for once such book cover claim is not exaggeration. This book tackles this topic and leaves you with a sense of wonder and delight. Many books on abstruse subjects leave you with a sense of bafflement - our human senses and sensibilities are built by evolution to deal with our world of trees, rivers and animals, not atoms and black holes. Then finally looking at time from the human perspective and how it might be built on the basis of entropy so that we see time as a series of events given direction by the increase in disorder as ‘time’ progresses. In the book he deals with time on the quantum level (essentially, time does not exist here) and at the level of the gravitational universe (in relativistic theory) where every part of the universe has it’s own, local, time. He is also a big-hearted romantic ex-hippy whose love of life and humanity shines through this work. He is a theoretical physicist, born in Italy but now working in France in the field of quantum-loop gravity - one of the contenders for the ’Theory of Everything’. Rovelli is making the grammar of the universe accessible to a new generation' - Channel 4 NewsĪn immensely enjoyable and thought-provoking book by Carlo Rovelli.

With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time. 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. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. 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. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning of time Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Winner of Audiobook of the Year at The Specsavers National Book Awards 2018 Penguin presents the audio CD edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch.

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