The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an exhilarating journey to discover the meaning of time.
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique theorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Reality Is Not What It Seems are international bestsellers translated into forty-one languages.
In Carlo Rovelli modern physics has found its poet. A captivating,
fascinating, profoundly beautiful book. . . Rovelli is a
wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much
philosopher and poet as he is a scientist
*Irish Times*
Rovelli is a wonderful writer. . . The ideas in The Order of Time
are extraordinary, and I rather fear you should read it
*Believer*
I consider Carlo Rovelli to be a poet as much as a physicist. . .
Everybody should read this book
*Es Devlin*
A dazzling book. . . Meet the new Stephen Hawking. . . I've never
seen special relativity explained so well, never visualised it less
fuzzily, never felt such a jolt of shock at what it implies
*Sunday Times*
The superstar physicist who wants to make science accessible to
all
*Channel 4 News*
A joy to read. . . Rovelli writes easily, vividly and brilliantly -
he is as at ease with Beethoven as he is with Boltzmann's constant,
and verses by Horace launch each chapter, one of which ends with a
couplet from the Grateful Dead. . . A delight
*Guardian*
A dizzying, poetic work in which I found myself abandoning
everything I thought I knew about time
*Guardian*
Physics' literary superstar makes us rethink time. . . The Order of
Time will surely establish Rovelli among the pantheon of great
scientist-communicators. . . More of this please
*New Scientist*
Rovelli is one of our great scientific explicators. . . Not since
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has there been so genial
an integration of physics and philosophy
*Observer*
We live in an age of wonderful science writing, and Carlo Rovelli's
The Order of Time, is an example of the very best. Time is
something we think we know about instinctively; here he shows how
profoundly strange it really is
*Guardian*
Highly original. . . The heart and humanity of the book, its poetry
and its gentle tone raise it to the level and style of such great
scientist-writers as Lewis Thomas and Rachel Carson
*New York Times Book Review*
A deep - and remarkably readable - dive into the fundamental nature
of time. . . written with enough charm and poetry to engage the
imagination of anyone who reads it
*Financial Times*
An elegantly concise primer makes theoretical physics intelligible.
. . stunningly written
*The Times*
A masterly writer. . . In this little gem of a book, Mr. Rovelli
demolishes our common-sense notion of time. . . an ambitious book
that illuminates a thorny question and succeeds in being a
pleasurable read
*Wall Street Journal*
Carlo Rovelli has achieved almost prophetic status
*Prospect*
The physicist transforming how we see the universe
*Financial Times*
With the publication of his million-selling Seven Brief Lessons on
Physics, Carlo Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and
Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern
theoretical physics
*Spectator*
The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest
explainer of physics
*Sunday Times*
Anyone with the least interest in the science of the physical world
will be by turns astonished, baffled and thrilled by what Rovelli
has to say about the true nature of time, which has little in
common with our everyday conception of it
*Guardian*
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