The nature of time The question of the measurement and properties of time has been subject to debate for hundreds of years. The Nature of Time enters this debate with a refreshing new perspective. Divided into sections on clocks Newtonian and humanly perceived time thermodynamics quantum mechanics and relativity this book focuses on a physical understanding of how humans measure and interpret the measurements of the quantity which we call time. Written in a digestible manner with little mathematics this book will be an important introductory resource to undergraduate students in physics biology philosophy and those interested in the debate on time