Book Club: The Order Of Time (Part 3) - What Happens When Nothing Happens?

Disruptors and curious minds, book lovers. Welcome to book club. We're reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli....And this week It's a battle between Newton and Aristotle and Einstein in the referee. It's twisted. Like space and time. Who is right? Does time move, what happens when nothing happens? Gravitational fields. Quantum gravity. Just what the hell is time? Benjamin Franklin said once you lose it, you’ll never find it again. Theophrastrus said it was the most valuable thing you can spend. Pericles said it was the wisest counsellor of all. Oscar Wilde said punctuality steals it away. Turns out they were all wrong. Ladies and gentlemen, Albert Einstein. “The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Or, “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.” Isaac Newton said, “Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.” Aristotle said, “Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.” Time really is all we have. Please Enjoy The Show. =============================== Praise For The Order Of Time Philip Pullman: "Wonderful... Time is something we know about instinctively, here Carlo shows how profoundly strange it is." John Banville: "Physics has found its poet." Tom Whipple: "An elegantly concise primer that makes theoretical physics intelligible stunningly written."

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