#The Order of Time

[fatchance]

"The difference between the past and the future refers only to our own blurred vision of the world. It's a conclusion that leaves us flabbergasted: is it really possible that a perception so vivid, basic, existential – my perception of the passage of time – depends on the fact that I cannot apprehend the world in all of its minute detail? On a kind of distortion that's produced by my myopia? ... Is it possible that I have as much knowledge of the past – or ignorance of it – as I do of the future?"

– Carlo Rovelli in The Order of Time, 2018.

Time might be an arrow, @charlesreeza, but life is a blur.

This is a marvelous little book. The rush of ideas made my brain hurt, but so illuminating.

[sleepdepravity]

You could have just. Put their names in the text. And not a footnote.

[mythoughttherapy]

“This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain.

For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”

—Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

Get me on the shakedown breakdown showdown

[afragmentcastadrift]

Current [mind-blowing] read

[odetoscavengers]

EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR FEMUR REVIEWS NUMBER 3!!!! this time for The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

its been a bit since ive done this because of my lack of motivation but im glad I changed that because this book was fucking amazing. TLDR: a book that has honestly changed the way I perceive myself and the world for the better. This is a book not only about the way time functions but the human condition as well and how we manage to live in a universe that contradicts our perception of it.

ok ramble under the cut though i dont know how long ill be able to write for.

Rovelli is a wonderful author as well as a physicist. He consistently manages to talk about the abstract in such beautiful terms that are easily understandable. I feel the need to preface this with the fact that I am not a physicist and that my understandings of the theoretical are.... lacking to say the least. But despite that it managed to make me care the entire time even when it eventually delved into the more technical. I'm not sure how it would fare from the perspective of someone already familiar with its concepts but at least to me it felt approachable while not avoiding some of the more technical.

Its a very existential book; consistently talking about how flawed our perception of the universe is. What I really enjoyed about it though, is that it never treats our perception as insignificant or something to be changed. We may not view the universe as it is objectively, but that doesn't matter, because we are not objective creatures. We are events, not objects, and despite the passing of time, we are still ourselves. It's hard for me to format just how good this book it. Highly recommend it to anyone who has the slightest interest in theoretical physics or just how time works in general.

ok bye o/

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[doctor-mccoys-sanity]

Carlo Rovellis books are magnificent. Read his chapter on general relativity and then before continuing that book am listening to “The Order of Time” and the way he writes physics in such a poetic manner is beautiful and I am obsessed.

[gidionkeep]

Dragon Book Cover Makeover: THE ORDER OF TIME

You might not think a cover as simple as the one for Carlo Rovelli's book THE ORDER OF TIME offers a lot of room for changing it, but Windsor made some time to do it.

Every Monday, my grumpy dragon Windsor takes over my blog to give books a much needed dragon makeover. This week, Windsor is returning to non-fiction for his latest book cover makeover. He’s given Carlo Rovelli’s THE ORDER OF TIME, the ol’ “drangonification.” This was a fun one to do. I also enjoy when I can do something fun with the blurbs on the cover. I found this book an interesting read,…

[thesparhawke]

When we cannot formulate a problem [question] with precision, it is often not because the problem is profound; it's because the problem is false.

Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

[trekkerac]

Ford "Icarus didn't flap hard enough" Pines

[allwillbecomeclear]

obsessed.

[sleepdepravity]

Interesting citation to make.

[hampop]

“Senshi what do I do?”

“Get the fries. You’ll need the energy in the coming days.”

[allskywalkerswhine]

in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[lmaonade]

i love getting those spam emails/texts that are like "You have a package ready for delivery!" as if i don't have a completely intimate and borderline unhealthy awareness of every single thing i've ever ordered and exactly when it's gonna come in