The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli examines why clocks disagree, why the past differs from the future, and how memory shapes our experience of time. You’ll connect relativity, entropy, and everyday experience while distinguishing established results from proposals about time’s deeper origins.
3 sections · 12 lessons
Course outline
Clocks and change
- Why good clocks disagree
- Why there is no universal now
- Why heat has a direction
- When spacetime becomes part of physics
A world of events
- Why a stone is a process
- Change without a master clock
Familiar time
- What entropy leaves out
- Could a state define time?
- Could time’s arrow depend on perspective?
- Why conserved energy still runs out
- Why the past leaves traces
- Why memory makes time personal
- Repair a misleading exhibit about time