Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Riverhead, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-399-18441-3 This enchanting book from Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist ...

Rovelli explains this through entropy, a measure of disorder first introduced in thermodynamics by Ludwig Boltzmann. As the universe moves from order to chaos, we perceive an arrow of time.

It is argued by theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli that time, as we perceive it, is an illusion shaped by limited human understanding and quantum uncertainty. Reality, according to Rovelli ...

Christine Rovelli’s career has spanned some of the most defining moments of the past several decades, from the dot-com bubble, the September 11 attacks, the Great Recession, and now the COVID-19 ...

and culture Weekly update on developments in India and its neighbors A curated selection of our very best long reads Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer.

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