Why time flies
Subtitle: a mostly scientific investigation
By: Alan Burdick
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9781410496928
Subjects: Large type books; Time measurements; Popular works; Time
Description: "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 exploration, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-553).
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: The hours; title: The days; title: The present; title: Why time flies.