About time : from sun dials to quantum clocks, how the cosmos shapes our lives - and how we shape the cosmos / Time.

Frank, Adam, 1962-

About time : from sun dials to quantum clocks, how the cosmos shapes our lives - and how we shape the cosmos / Adam Frank. - Pbk. ed. - Richmond : Oneworld, 2013, c2011. - xxi, 406 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

POPULAR SCIENCE. Weaving cosmology with everyday, down-to-earth examples, Frank presents dazzling, provocative insights into how time passes through our lives - and what cutting-edge physics has in store for us next. A Palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day in a radically different way to a modern office worker bound into 15-minute Outlook increments - but both grasped time based on unseen but potent scientific discoveries. With the advent of "clockless" physics and other breakthroughs, science is again rewritng time and our experience of it.

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