About Time: From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives - And We Shape the Cosmos
Author(s): Adam Frank
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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Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester, in New York. The receipient of a prestigious Hubble Fellowship, he writes frequently for Discover, Astronomy, and Scientific American magazines. He is also a co-founder of the top-ranking science blog 13.7 and a regular contributor to radio programmes.
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- : Oneworld Publications
- : Oneworld Publications
- : 31 January 2013
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2013
- : books
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- : Adam Frank
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 529
- : 432
- : Illustrations