The Order of Time Paperback

Time, in modern physics, turns out to be far less solid than everyday experience suggests, and Carlo Rovelli spends this short book explaining why. The argument moves from the loss of a single universal present in relativity, through the role of thermodynamics and entropy in giving time a direction, to a picture in which events and relations matter more than any flowing timeline. Rovelli writes as a working physicist but reaches often for poetry and philosophy, and the chapters are brief enough to be read slowly and reread. This Penguin paperback runs to 224 pages. A few specifics: • Relativity, entropy and quantum gravity explained without equations • A short book arranged in brief, self-contained chapters • Physics set alongside philosophy and literary reference • A 224-page Penguin paperback For readers of popular science who prefer ideas to formulas, published by Penguin and available from Boipoka.