The Order of Time

I think this was the best yet of Rovelli’s books, and that is saying something (although I admit I’m a bit biased because of my interest level in the study of time).

It’s hard to come up with any more praise of Rovelli than has been said before, but how clearly and elegantly he condenses such challenging topics (especially to the non-scientist reader) still astounds me after 3 books.

Here, he is able simplify why, for example, the question: “what is happening ‘now’ on a faraway planet” isn’t a legitimate question at all, how the underpinnings of the entropic relationship between heat and time, and provide more clarity on quantum states, black holes, and their own couplings with, and ownership of, localized time.

I was able to get through this in a day; that should serve as reason enough for someone still anxious about reading a book of this subject.