Curated by thrice · 7 books
Reading path
What is time, why does it flow one way, and could it end? Physics' deepest rabbit hole, from Hawking to Rovelli.
Stephen Hawking
The book that started it all — black holes, the Big Bang, and time itself.
Carlo Rovelli
Time might not exist at all. Rovelli's beautiful, unsettling case.
Sean M. Carroll
Why the past is different from the future — the arrow of time, explained.
Lee Smolin
The rebel argument: time is real, and physics forgot it.
Paul Davies
Einstein, time travel, and the paradoxes — a physicist's tour.
Julian B. Barbour
The boldest claim of all: the universe is timeless.
Alan P. Lightman
Thirty dream-worlds, thirty kinds of time. A palate cleanser in novel form.
