- Space and time, Time, Cosmology, Presentism (Philosophy)
"Why 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"--
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Contemporary, spare, warm and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Carlo Rovelli
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Anagrama, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Chinese, fin
- ISBN
- 9788845931925
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“I stop and do nothing. Nothing happens. I am thinking about nothing. I listen to the passing of time.”
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