Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation - Hardcover

Burdick, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 141654027X ISBN 13: 9781416540274

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

&;[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.&; &;The New York Times Book Review

&;Erudite and informative, a joy with many small treasures.&; &;Science

&;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.

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"Alan Burdick turns an obsession with the nature of time into a thrilling quest--one that brilliantly illuminates a subject that haunts us all. Time may fly by but at least while reading these pages it is never wasted."--David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

"Alan Burdick offers a fascinating and searching account of how we perceive time's passage. It will change the way you think about the past, and also the present."--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

"In his lucid, thoughtful, and beautifully written inquiry about time--what is it, really? Did we invent it, or does it invent us?--Burdick offers nothing less than a new way of reconsidering what it means to be human."--Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees

"Burdick tours that unsettling passage of existence we call "time"--how our brains process it, how infants first grasp it, how our conversations encode it--and returns with a spellbinding, provocative book that will fill you with wonder."--Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

"A marvelous meditation on the subtle mysteries of time."--Olivia Judson, author of Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

"This book blew my mind."--Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit

"Burdick is like a charming and witty river guide, exploring the tributaries and side-streams along the river of consciousness--the science, the history, the literature, the deep and beautiful paradoxes that make us what we are. Why Time Flies will enhance your experience of what may be, in the end, the most intimate relationship of your liÞ--your connection with the passage of time."--Jonathan Weiner, author of Long for this World

"An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time . . . A highly illuminating intellectual investigation."--Kirkus Reviews

"[Burdick] is one of the finest science writers at work today, with an uncanny ability explain knotty topics, with humanity, and humor."--Publishers Weekly staff picks, best books of 2016

"Burdick places his readers in the centers of their temporal universes."--Publishers Weekly

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 141654027X
• ISBN 13: 9781416540274
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 301
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