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Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation / Alan Burdick.
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Burdick, Alan
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Language
English
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Published/Created
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
©2017
Description
xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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QB213 .B925 2017
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Summary note
""Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it'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 we'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 "now" 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 neuroscientist'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, "--Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword
The hours
The days
The instants
Why time flies.
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ISBN
9781416540274 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
141654027X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9781416540281 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1416540288 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016025791
OCLC
951465449
Other standard number
40026839762
40026843305
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