El orden del tiempo / The Order of Time

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A beautiful treatise on time. Though Carlo's usage of flowery language at times disrupts from his actual point and purpose, the message is still clear through it. Entropy = time. Time is nothing more than entropy, and entropy is the heat of change. That basically is for the full sum of the book. ...

from Paul-the-well-read

Before reading this book, I had a naive and simplistic view of time, but this book made me realize both how wrong I was and how complex the whole issue of time really is. I read it fascinated by the insights about the true meaning of “time,” the puzzlement felt by physicists as they seek a deeper...

from nbmars

Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who has written several books trying to explain very abstruse constructs, and has been fairly successful at it. In this book, he tries to make sense of the meaning of time. He observes that all of the laws of physics, save one, are expressed in a ...

from JJbooklvr

Time seems like a simple idea but when you really look at it and try to explain what it is things get really interesting. And difficult. Some of the topics got tough to follow but the overall points were interesting to read. A good choice for Science fans.

from Paul-the-well-read

Before reading this book, I had a naive and simplistic view of time, but this book made me realize both how wrong I was and how complex the whole issue of time really is. I read it fascinated by the insights about the true meaning of “time,” the puzzlement felt by physicists as they seek a deeper...