The order of time carlo rovelli5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() “A gentle letter, alluding to the spiritual bond between Michele and Albert.” That sensitivity to the human condition is a constant presence in Rovelli’s book - a book that reviews all of the best scientific thinking about the perennial mystery of time, from relativity to quantum physics to the inexorable second law of thermodynamics. ![]() “It’s a letter written to console a grieving sister,” he writes. But then the author goes on to say that the great physicist was addressing his letter not to scientists or philosophers, but to a bereft family. That means nothing… The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Rovelli comments that Einstein was taking great poetic license with the temporal findings of his relativity theory, even to the point of error. There’s a passage in Carlo Rovelli’s lovely new book, “The Order of Time” - a letter from Einstein to the family of his recently deceased friend Michele Besso: “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. THE ORDER OF TIME By Carlo Rovelli Translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell Read by Benedict Cumberbatch 4 hours, 19 minutes. ![]()
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