作者：CarloRovelli
出版社：AllenLane
出版年：2018-4-26
页数：224
定价：£12.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780241292525
内容简介
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The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time
'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.'
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.
With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time — and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.
作者简介
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Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is the head of the quantum gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille Université. He is one of the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory and author of the international bestseller Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, and the forthcoming The Order of Time. Rovelli lives in Marseille, France.
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1）我们都是大近视眼，如果我们的视力好到可以看到普朗克尺度的东西，那么我们可能发现时间和空间是被“编织”出来的，并不是永恒存在的2）我们能够听音乐其实跟我们的只能记得过去这种认知方式是有关的（以前都没想过！）如果我们边听边忘，我们没办法听一个完整的音乐的。3）我还是想象不出没有时间的世界是什么样子的
午后悠闲重温。
世界是事件而非物体的集合，想到维特根斯坦，把世界是巨大的事实之网。
Written so romantically
读书小组11月选书，可能是今年读的最难的一本了，看了英文版中文版听了英文有声书，去youtube看了狭义广义相对论以及热力学第二定律，还是只明白了50-60%，仿佛被打开了新视界又仿佛仍被困在自己的小视界。。应该会是一直反复读下去的书吧。
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