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About Time : From Sun Dials To Quantum Clocks How The Cosmosshapes Our Lives And How We Shape The Cosmos
Paperback Edition: 1/2013
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 rewriting time and our experience of it.
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Pages : 432
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
Publication date : 2013-02-07
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure