Book:The Order of Time (2019)
Book quotes
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (2019)
The notion of 'now'—a present that is common to the whole universe—is an illusion, a subjectives extrapolation of our experience.
We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces left by the (re)processing of the images of our memory.
The 'passing' of time is internal to us, an aspect of our way of seeing the world, not a property of the world itself.
My notes on things to learn about/do
These will one day become related articles.
- Different definitions of time
- How people perceive time in different ways around the world
- Entropy
- The physics of "now"
- The relationship between memory and time
- Is time a function of humans - does it exist outside of our perception of reality?