Carlo Rovelli: Timing

Carlo Rovelli is Italian physicist. Explore interesting quotes on timing.

Carlo Rovelli: 42 quotes1 like

“In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aim- lessly. You don’t get anywhere by not ‘wasting’ time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.”

Carlo Rovelli book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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Seven Brief Lectures on Physics (2014)
Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“Time is... the expression of our ignorance of the full microstate.”

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“[T]ime is much more elastic than our intuition of this rigid passage... The time interval between one point and another... depends on where you are.”

Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time (Apr 10, 2020)

“If we formulate the fundamental theory of nature in a timeless language, we have then the problem of recovering the familiar notion of time.”

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“General relativity has changed our understanding of space and time. ...The spacetime of general relativity ...is likely to be just a classical approximation that loses its meaning in the quantum theory, for the same reason the trajectory of a particle does.”

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“I... interpret mechanics as a theory of relations between variables, rather than the theory of the evolution of variables in time.”

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“[I]n a fundamental description of nature we must "forget time"... this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory.”

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

“I argue that the best strategy for understanding quantum gravity is to build a picture of the physical world where the notion of time plays no role at all.”

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)