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

By: Frank, Adam, 1962-Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Richmond : Oneworld, 2013, c2011Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xxi, 406 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: 9781851689644 (pbk.)Subject(s): TimeDDC classification: 529 Summary: 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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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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