Posts Tagged by Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli: The present is a localized rather than global phenomenon
| September 10, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
Carlo Rovelli, author of The Order of Time, that there is neither space nor time: A present that is common throughout the whole universe does not exist. Events are not ordered in pasts, presents, and futures; they are only “partially” ordered. There is a present that is near to us, but nothing that is “present” […]
Rob Sheldon’s thoughts on physicists’ “warped” view of time
| August 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics |
Further to Carlo Rovelli’s views on time travel (only a technological problem, not a scientific one) and the order of time in general, views, as set out in The Order of Time, our color commentator Rob Sheldon offers, — If I can speculate about what goes on in physicist’s heads, this issue about time is an attempt […]
Cosmologist Carlo Rovelli: Future time travel only a technological problem
| August 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics |
Not a scientific one. Dan Falk interviews physicist Carlo Rovelli about “about the nature of time, whether it has a beginning and if humans might one day master time travel:” Could time travel ever be possible? Well, “time traveling” is what we do all our lives, isn’t it? But you mean, can we jump quickly […]
Cosmologist: Philosophy is essential to the development of physics.
| July 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics |
From Carlo Rovelli at Scientific American: Against Philosophy is the title of a chapter of a book by one of the great physicists of the last generation: Steven Weinberg.1 Weinberg argues eloquently that philosophy is more damaging than helpful for physics—it is often a straightjacket that physicists have to free themselves from. Stephen Hawking famously […]
Does physics deconstruct our sense of time?
| April 20, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Physics |
From Andrew Jaffe at Nature, reviewing Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time: According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. Indeed, as Rovelli argues in The Order of Time, much more is illusory, including Isaac Newton’s picture of a universally ticking clock. […]
