For Rovelli, the first step toward understanding how time works is accepting that we know nothing about it. No one can definitively say how time works, but that should not stop us from trying to make sense of it. What makes time different from Earth, however, is that we know what Earth really looks like. Rovelli compares time to planet Earth-although we perceive the Earth as flat because it looks flat as we walk and drive around it, the Earth is spherical. The Order of Time proposes that reality and time work very differently from how we imagine they work. An Italian theoretical physicist responsible for developing the loop quantum gravity theory, Foreign Policy named Rovelli one of the world’s 100 most influential global thinkers scientists dub him “the new Stephen Hawking.” He is best known for his poetic writing style and for making complex scientific topics accessible to general readers. In The Order of Time (2018), a work of philosophical science, Carlo Rovelli explores the meaning of time, proposing that time is an illusion shaped by our own personal realities rather than any natural or scientific law.
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