We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.
Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lea… - Carlo Rovelli
Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lea…
- Carlo Rovelli
The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us … - Carlo Rovelli
The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us …
Don't trust your teachers. - Carlo Rovelli
Don't trust your teachers.
An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run. - Carlo Rovelli
An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.
I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of… - Carlo Rovelli
I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of…
Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the du… - Carlo Rovelli
Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the du…
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your cl… - Carlo Rovelli
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your cl…
I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear … - Carlo Rovelli
I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear …
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts ab… - Carlo Rovelli
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts ab…
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