Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

â€œ[Why Time Flies] captures us. Because it opens up a well of fascinating queries and gives us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening mystery for humans: the nature of time.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œErudite and informative, a joy with many small treasures.â€ â€”Science

â€œTimeâ€ is the most commonly used noun in the English language; itâ€™s always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when weâ€™re bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?

In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that â€œnowâ€ actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientistâ€™s lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 26463491
ReleaseDate 2017-01-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416540274

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	26463491
ReleaseDate	2017-01-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416540274

Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

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