Bibliograph

Why time flies, a mostly scientific investigation, Alan Burdick

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Why time flies, a mostly scientific investigation, Alan Burdick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why time flies

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

951465449

Responsibility statement

Alan Burdick

Sub title

a mostly scientific investigation

Summary

""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

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- The hours -- The days -- The present -- Why time flies

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