A review by one4ale
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

5.0

Whenever people talk about STEM and Humanities it's always in contrast to the other, mutually exclusive; it was good to read a book like this that celebrates the romance and emotion already in science. A lot of times you'll hear of an artistic science that reduces the science in favor of art and this does not that. It's Rovelli's perspective of time that allows it to be beautiful, in and of itself.

I already knew enough about the physics involved to understand most of it (though towards the end I had to do some outside reading just to more or less follow) but I think if I knew nothing about anything I would've learned as I went. I learned a lot anyways, though, always fun.

My favorite section was on the topic of gravity and cones, which I'm still thinking about now.