bOne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decadebrb brbMeet the new Stephen Hawking . . . iThe Order of Timei is a dazzling book. --iThe Sunday Timesi brb brbFrom the bestselling author of iSeven Brief Lessons on Physicsi, iReality Is Not What It Seemsi, iHelgolandi, and iAnaximander icomes a concise, elegant exploration of time.b pWhy do we remember the past and not the future What does it mean for time to flow Do we exist in time or does time exist in us In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. pFor most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He