The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli · 2017
Index
- Part One: The Crumbling of Time
- 1. Loss of Unity
- 2. Loss of Direction
- 3. The End of the Present
- 4. Loss of Independence
- 5. Quanta of Time
- Part Two: The World Without Time
- 6. The World Is Made of Events, Not Things
- 7. The Inadequacy of Grammar
- 8. Dynamics as Relation
- Part Three: The Sources of Time
- 9. Time Is Ignorance
- 10. Perspective
- 11. What Emerges from a Particularity
- 12. The Scent of the Madeleine
- 13. The Sources of Time
Quote
"Time is not what we think it is."
"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."