Benedict Cumberbatch on The Order of Time

Benedict Cumberbatch reads the opening of ‘The Order of Time’ by Carlo Rovelli, the new book about the meaning of time from the bestselling author of ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’. Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been und