The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Summary
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Time isn't what you think. Carlo Rovelli's mind-bending journey through physics reveals how time flows differently across the universe. Einstein's relativity comes alive in this 15-minute Blinkist favorite, challenging our perception of reality through events, not things.
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What If Everything You Know About Time Is Wrong?
Stand still for a moment and listen. Can you hear it? That subtle sensation of time passing, seconds ticking away, the inexorable march from past to future. Now here's the unsettling truth: what you're experiencing doesn't actually exist in the fundamental fabric of reality. Time, as we know it, is an illusion-not in some mystical sense, but in a precise, scientific way that transforms how we understand existence itself. This isn't philosophy or poetry. It's physics, revealed through decades of careful observation and mathematical rigor. And it changes everything. Picture a simple experiment: place two atomic clocks side by side, one on your floor, one on a table. Wait. The clock on the floor will run measurably slower than the one above it. This isn't malfunction-it's reality. Time literally passes at different rates depending on where you are. Someone living in the mountains ages faster than someone at sea level. The difference is tiny, but absolutely real.
The Shattering of Time's Unity and the One Law That Remembers Yesterday
The Meaninglessness of Now and the Fusion of Space and Time
The Quantum Dissolution and a Universe of Happening
The Time That Emerges From Timelessness
What We Are in a World Without Time
The Gift of Time and Memory
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