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.