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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Why Time Flies A Mostly Scientific Investigation Author:Alan Burdick ?Time? is the most commonly used noun in the English language; we all live in it and organize ourselves around it. But what is time exactly? Do children experience it in the same way as adults do? Why does it slow down when we?re bored and fly by as we get older? — In this witty, graceful, and intimate exploration, award-winning author Alan Burdi... more »ck takes readers along on a quest to understand the clocks that tick inside us all. For the better part of a decade, Burdick, a New Yorker staff writer and National Book Award finalist, journeyed among scientists studying the most vexing questions about our perceptions of time. Along the way he visits the most accurate clock in the world?which exists only on paper; he discovers that ?now? actually happened a split-second ago; he lived in the Arctic, in a bid to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist?s lab, he even made time go backward.
The result is an instant classic, a vivid and deeply moving examination of the stuff that makes us human. Why Time Flies is not a book about space-time (although, Burdick learns, scientists have figured out how to add an extra hour to our day in case we someday live on Mars). But make no mistake, you?ll never look at a clock the same way again. Why Time Flies will forever change your relationship with time.« less
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