{"product_id":"the-order-of-time","title":"The Order of Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling book.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSeven Brief Lessons on Physics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReality Is Not What It Seems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHelgoland\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnaximander \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a concise, elegant exploration of time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlready a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made \u003ci\u003eSeven Brief Lessons on Physics\u003c\/i\u003e so appealing, \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Time\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661176701218,"sku":"9780735216112","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_42e66b80-f4f6-4c83-81f4-8fda491ed8f9.jpg?v=1779451095","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/the-order-of-time","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}