The new definition of time

Time is a luxury in today's world. It seems like we don't have enough time to do everything we want.

It seems that saving time has become an obsession, but for what purpose?

And what is the present? Does it exist? Why can we remember our past but not our future?

These are fascinating questions for me.

I recently discovered L'Ordre du Temps, a book written by Carlo Rovelli, an Italian physicist, which explores the meaning and nature of time. It presents time to us in a rather unusual and very interesting way, and answers these questions in its own way.

Here are my favorite quotes from the book, which help to see and understand time in a different way.

"We live in time like fish in water."

"Our present does not extend to the entire universe; it has the shape of a bubble around us."

"The present of the universe means nothing. The present that separates our past from our future is almost imperceptible."

“Think of the world as if it were made of events, circumstances, processes and things that happen, they don't last and are continually changing.”

“Our experience of the world comes from within.”

"What makes world events happen is the irresistible mixing of all things, which goes from rare ordered configurations to innumerable disordered configurations."

"The traces left by the past in the present are everywhere. Our brain is full of memories."

"While this presence of abundant traces of the past gives the familiar sensation of a determined past, the absence of similar traces in the future gives the sensation of an open future."

"Memory is an accumulation of traces that tell us that the world was in a specific configuration in the past, and that is why it left a trace."

“The mystery of time intertwines with the mystery of our personal identity.”

L'Ordre du Temps by Carlo Rovelli on Amazon .