Thinking On Paper

Disruptors and curious minds, book lovers, founders, heretics, readers... Welcome to book club.

Benjamin Franklin said once you lose it, you’ll never find it again. Theophrastus 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. And in this months book club, we're talking about it in more detail than we ever thought possible. We're reading:

- The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli.

Please Enjoy The Show.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 The Order Of Time By Carlo Rovelli
1:30 Time Is An Invented Concept
3:24 Setting Up The Book
4:10 Time As We Know It
5:10 Modifying Space Time
5:36 Mass Slows Down Time
7:30 The Loss Of Unity
9:04 The Beginner's Mind
10:36 Heat And The Agitation Of Molecules
12:13 Entropy
13:07 No Heat No Time?
17:10 Entropy Is Time's Arrow

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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."