![]() ![]() Things are just events that are for a moment monotonous. Rovelli argues that our world is a world of events. Things persist in time whereas events simply happen. ![]() It is fascinating to see how many of the ideas emerging from Rovelli’s understanding of time resonate with our work on process ontologies.įor instance, according to Rovelli, there are no things but only events. In a world where there are as many times as there are points in space, where it is impossible to define an absolute present due to special relativity, and where time has quantum properties, Rovelli puts forward a conception of time where the past, present and future are intertwined. Rovelli presents his ideas about time drawing on the thermodynamic quantity of entropy, Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum physics. ![]() Reading “The Order of Time” by Carlo Rovelli has been a great pleasure. ![]()
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