Burdick, Alan.
Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation / Alan Burdick. - Large print edition. - 557 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-553).
Foreword -- The hours -- The days -- The instants -- Why time flies.
"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.
9781410496928 1410496929
2016055485
Time measurements--Popular works.
Time--Popular works.
Large type books.
Science--Time.
QB213 / .B925 2017b
529.2 Bur 64
Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation / Alan Burdick. - Large print edition. - 557 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-553).
Foreword -- The hours -- The days -- The instants -- Why time flies.
"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.
9781410496928 1410496929
2016055485
Time measurements--Popular works.
Time--Popular works.
Large type books.
Science--Time.
QB213 / .B925 2017b
529.2 Bur 64