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Carlo Rovelli: In physics, the difference between past and present is extraordinarily slippery

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

The physicists Marc Warner and Emanuele Moscato met Professor Carlo Rovelli, author of the bestselling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Together they questioned him about his latest book, The Order of Time, which has been compared with the work of Stephen Hawking. Their conversation explains and explores the meaning of time, as it is and as we perceive it to be.

 

A theory of time

 
A practical reader of your book The Order of Time might wonder why we care about time, when it seems so obvious and so universal.

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