FEAST OR FAMINE

 

  The Order of Time  by Carlo Rovelli (1959) is about the physics of time and space: ‘We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.’   The book is divided into three parts: 1) The Crumbling of Time, 2) The World without Time, and 3) The Sources of Time.    Part One is an account of modern physics and time – from Anaximander (‘the Earth floats in space’) and Nicolaus Copernicus (‘the Sun is at the centre of the Universe’) to Albert Einstein (‘the equations that describe how proper times develop relative to each other’) and others.    Poets, artists, philosophers, and scientists have all been fascinated by the mystery of time. The more humans develop, the more they transform their understanding of it.     Carlo Rovelli talks of altitude, speed, the midday sun, timezones, Earth’s hemisph...

MARTINA NICOLLS Website Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES    MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

In the 2011 Woody Allen movie Midnight in Paris, character Gil (played by Owen Wilson) waits for the clock to strike the twelve strokes of midnight – to transport him to the 1920s heydeys when American authors and creatives lived in Paris. He is waiting on the steps of the church, Saint-Etienne-due-Mont near the Pantheon in Paris.  The road is the Montagne Sainte-Genevieve that leads to the church. The church originates from the 13th century. The bell tower was constructed in 1491 and the facade was completed in 1624 in a mix of Gothic and Renaissance architecture.  It is situated at the Place de l‘Abbe Basset, the name of a former vicar of the church. MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Kni...

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).