The Order of Time

<span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;>One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade</span><span> </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;>&quot;Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold a-text-italic&quot;>The Order of Time</span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;> is a dazzling book.&quot; --</span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold a-text-italic&quot;>The Sunday Times</span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;> </span><span> </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;>From the bestselling author of </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold a-text-italic&quot;>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics</span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;>, </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold a-text-italic&quot;>Reality Is Not What It Seems</span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;>, </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold a-text-italic&quot;>Helgoland</span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;>, and </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold a-text-italic&quot;>Anaximander </span><span class=&quot;a-text-bold&quot;>comes a concise, elegant exploration of time.</span><span>Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to &quot;flow&quot;? 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. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made </span><span class=&quot;a-text-italic&quot;>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics</span><span> so appealing, </span><span class=&quot;a-text-italic&quot;>The Order of Time</span><span> offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.</span>