Even more fascinatingly, though this space-time fabric is ostensibly smooth and continuous, it gets deformed by the presence of matter and energy. Rather, time is only one part of the dual all-permeating fabric of the universe, woven together with space. To use an analogy, time isn’t really a river, and we don’t inhabit it like fish swimming in the water. That being said, nothing works quite as counterintuitively as time.Īs physicists discovered only recently – that is, at the beginning of the 20th century – as much as time appears to be a uniform, universally flowing “thing,” it is, in fact, anything but. Moreover, it spins around the sun, even though it seems the other way around. For example, the Earth is spherical, and yet it appears to be flat. Reality is often very different from what it seems. Get ready to join him in a quest to solve nature’s greatest and most profound mystery! The crumbling of time In his 200-page wonder of a book “The Order of Time,” he simultaneously annihilates our commonsense understanding of time and elucidates its true, utterly baffling nature, and does so in a dizzying, poetic manner. “If nobody asks me,” he realized, “I feel like I know but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I do not know.” Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli doesn’t have this problem: not only does he know more about time than almost anyone on this planet, but he is, arguably, one of history’s most exceptional communicators of complex and counterintuitive scientific concepts.
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