The Order of Time | 
pickCarlo Rovelli is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers. He has a knack for explaining complex quantum physics with ease, but he‘s also poetic and philosophical about life. His prose is beautiful and a joy to read! 5-star book! ⭐️
My treat to myself when I took my mother in law and kids to the mall today… I was able to sneak away and peruse B&N 😊
pickAn interesting read. Rovelli brings a sense of poetry and playfulness to a complex topic that makes it engaging and accessible. I think I'd still need another listen (or five) to begin to grasp some of the strands here, but it is worth exploring. (And with Benedict Cumberbatch narrating the audio, I don't mind spending extra time listening!)
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🇬🇧 “A stone is a prototypical “thing”: we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an “event.” It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬.”
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A nonfiction kind of weekend for me.. 📚🤓
⏰ The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
🦋 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Listening to this mind bending book on our drive from DC to NY today. Reminds me of Dali‘s melting clocks. “The only time the arrow (directionality) of time appears is when there is heat”.
so-soLeaves physics quickly for philosophy and pop psy, but that‘s easiest to grasp. Time is local, time is entropy, time is heat transfer, time is perspectival. World is made of events, not objects.
Does time “flow” in one direction? From human perspective, yes. A common present throughout the universe does not exist.
Somewhat stilted language—trans or original? Friend chided me for not getting Cumberbatch audio. Guess I‘m rereading! Trans. 2018
But it isn‘t absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain. For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is, in the end, something good and even beautiful, because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.
This book takes a very interesting, mind opening approach to time. The first few chapters were great and then it got a bit too far fetched to me. Still, always learning a new way of thinking!
pickAn amazing summary of our understanding of time. Without using any equations, Rovelli drives home the nature of universe (as per the current understanding) and how different fields impact one another resulting in the so called passage of time.
There were a couple of tough paragraphs that could do your head, nonetheless a great read.
It's an amazing read on the concept of time... Time and time again, our understanding of time has been questioned and put to test.
Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist himself debunks the myths of time. When we talk about present, what does it mean? Will there be a common present for two people?
“The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones” (98).
#poetrymatters and so does physics
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“With a tremendous beat of his wings, Einstein understands that Aristotle and Newton are both right” (77).
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pickI found this book fascinating, but I made the mistake of breaking up my reading of it. Given the technical nature of the topic, that made the latter half of the book a lot harder for me to follow. Overall, Rovelli does a great job providing examples or analogies to make it easier to grasp the ideas he‘s working with. Definitely recommend it but with the caveat that it‘s best if you read it straight through without taking breaks for other books.
I‘m catching up on my unfinished reads of 2019, and I love this quote I just came across in Carlo Rovelli‘s THE ORDER OF TIME. #Time #Music #bookquote #CarloRovelli
I love this quote from Carlo Rovelli‘s The Order of Time, because it shows that the scientific pursuit of knowledge isn‘t dispassionate. The search for the answers that explain our universe is driven and defined by the emotions that make us human.
Started The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli a couple days ago, and it‘s really blowing my mind. In a weird bit of chance, my holds for the ebook and audiobook came in at the same time, so I‘m doing both. I‘m essentially going through this entire book in both formats to help me better absorb the information. I‘d recommend the print book/ebook over the audiobook, even though Benedict Cumberbatch does an excellent job reading the material.
I have become the worst at all forms of social media, but I‘m getting to be pretty effing strong at the gym.
Also, listening to this audiobook (yaaaas, Benedict Cumberbatch narrating) has me going “Okay, yes, got it, makes sense............... Wait, what? 🤯🤯🤯”
pickMy first read of #scienceseptember was a bit of a mind blowing experience, with physics meeting philosophy for a discussion of time. I barely grasped the concepts that were already dumbed down for a layperson - the absence of a "present," how time and entropy relate, equations without time, etc. But I did meet my goal of reading more than just nature stuff for the theme!
So, it has come to pass that my relationship with my regular bookseller of 10 years has come to an crash and burn-end. They increased prises for about 40 % and it took longer and longer to get your books, I waited my latest order for a month. And the customer service basically said f*ck you.
So now on I am in a polyamorous relationship with Amazon (😑), Waterstone, and Bookdepository. 👾
so-soRovelli explains how time outside of human experience does not exist and uses the idea of music as a way to develop human time as a process of memory rather than an experience of a constant present. The last three chapters are the ones worth reading; the rest of the book can be difficult to follow and repetitive at certain points.
This concludes #audiobaking for this lovely Friday evening. Finished cobbler (I made some last minute additions (my initials) to the lattice - and the final result looks way messier than what went in the oven). Now it‘s time to eat some yumminess and pick up a physical book (I have a couple books that are due back to the library soonish) 😃
Not too shabby, my first attempt at lattice work 😂
Into the oven... #audiobaking
Btw, I‘m loving this audiobook. It‘s very interesting and of course the narration is top notch 😄
More adventures in #audiobaking - this time trying my hand at a fancy cobbler (my first time making any kind of cobbler, if I‘m being honest).
Many thanks to @GondorGirl (and my library for the availability) for the heads up on this fascinating audiobook narrated by my boy Benedict. 😍
pickThis #nonfiction read was both fascinating and confusing. I'll admit that some of the more sciencey bits went over my head, but the basic ideas and explains of time were thought provoking. ⏳🕰⏱
Plus, it didn't hurt that the audio was narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch...
pickIs time real? Is it only a perception unique to humanity? Physics and philosophy fail to provide any real answers but this book explains a lot about what we do know. Revelatory and mind bending stuff. I enjoyed it very much.
pickAwesome, poetic writing, great science clearly explained, and the beautiful, sexy voice of Benedict Cumberbatch narrating this amazing book. What else could you ask for?
Really fascinating - wish I'd been a better student of math and physics.
pickA book on time through the study of loop quantum gravity theory! A philosophical book as well as a scientific one, although I wouldn‘t have minded more equations!
pickIt's weird to finish a book with a peaceful, feel-good sense and not really understand a lot of the content. I don't fault the author at all for this; it's a heady topic that folds philosophy and other subjective concepts into physics. It'll take more than a read through to get a solid grasp, at least for me, but I think it's worth the effort.
Also, the audio version read by Benedict Cumberbatch is really well done.
pickI love this liminal area between hard science and philosophy. Carlo Rovelli's writing is both clear and poetic and he had a wonderful ability to communicate what scientific theory means to us as ordinary humans, beyond. Here he tells the story of time: its uncertain meaning, its questionable existence. The audiobook is by Benedict Cumberbatch 😍 (I need a heart EARS emoji!) I couldn't resist the second book. Self-help through physics? I'm in.
pickDevoting himself to the study of Time is like "holding in your hand a snowflake". The fascinating development of modern physics which interprets the world in terms of events instead of things, in terms of nets of kisses instead of nets of stones.
This book is hurting my brain. It's lucky it is so pretty.
Daisy finds herself unconcerned with the complexities of time, space and physics and whether the concept of now can exist.
So, I finished up my Goodreads Reading Challenge a wee bit early.. I am a stress-reader and last months have most certainly been stressful, if the number of books read are to be trusted. I read 30 books in June alone.
I haven't been writing reviews or even posting about books, but at the moment I just need all the escapism that books can offer. Thankfully I have a TBR pile reaching to high heavens..
pickNarrator Benedict Cumberbatch has such a lovely voice that my brain was lulled into a kind of dreamy state while listening to this #audiobook. I gave it 3 stars on goodreads, then decided to listen through a second time & upped my stars to 5. Print may have been a better way to absorb the complex content, a combo of quantum physics, historical overview & philosophy. Some was covered in Rovelli‘s previous works but I don‘t mind—it‘s fascinating.
We have shaped our idea of being a human being by interacting with others like ourselves. I believe that our notion of self stems from this, not from introspection.
What are we, as human beings? Entities? But the world is not made up of entities. It is made from events that combine with each other. So what, then, am I?
