What do you plan on doing with your spare time during the holidays. Watch useless drivel on television? Or reading a good book?
If you chose a good book, are you tired of all the mysteries/crime novels/political dramas/[fill in the blank] or whatever you usually read?
If so, here is a book that will make you think, and think hard, and is probably different from any other book you have read. It is called The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli.
In case you haven’t guessed what the book is about, it’s about time (no pun intended). Do you know what time really is?
Here is some interesting information about time. Did you know that people that live in the mountains age faster than those who live in the plains, because time runs faster at higher elevations.
Rovelli says that the difference can be noticed when the watch of a friend who has just flown on a plane will be slightly different from the watch you are wearing on the ground. Even at smaller distances,, such as between a table and a floor, time changes.
The author of this Number 1 Best Seller on Amazon, Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, and one of the founders of loop quantum gravity. He is also a science historian and a science philosopher.
i never cared for physics in high school or college, yet I found this book to be riveting. I consider myself lucky that I even stumbled across it.
Therefore, if you are looking for an interesting non-fiction book that will open and expand your mind, that is easy reading and even entertaining, which will provide numerous facts you would previously never have believed and will never after forget, then I highly recommend that you read The Order of Time.
book review by Fred Fuld III
by John Carreyrou, and my first comment is “Wow”. This is the story of the rise and fall of the notorious blood-testing company, Theranos, founded by Elizabeth Holmes when she was 19 years old. The company, which claimed it could do numerous tests from one drop of blood, was valued at $9 billion at one time, and now is out of business.
