The Order of Time
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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
5 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2018–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
The absence of time does not mean, therefore, that everything is frozen and unmoving. It means that the incessant happening that wearies the world is not ordered along a time line, is not measured by a gigantic tick-tocking.
An intellectually stimulating and not overly technical read about the concept of a universe without time and some of the latest developments in Loop Quantum Gravity (Rovelli’s field of work).
his work is the clearest explication I’ve yet encountered of how QM might really be
Mind-bending read that made all the principles that had previously confused me (relatively, thermodynamics, entropy, etc) clear and awe-inspiring.
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