About Time

From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes our Lives - And We Shape the Cosmos

von Adam Frank

432 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From a Palaeolithic farmer living by the sun and stone plinths to the factory worker logging into an industrial punch clock to the modern manager enslaved to Outlook's 15-minute increments, our relationship with time has constantly evolved alongside our scientific understanding of the universe. And the latest advances in physics - string-theory branes, multiverses, "clockless" physics - are positioned to completely rewrite time in the coming years. Weaving cosmology with day-to-day chronicles and a lively wit, astrophysicist Adam Frank tells the dazzling story of humanity's invention of time and how we will experience it in the future.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Naturwissenschaften, allgemein Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• ISBN: 9781851689644
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2013
• Größe: 198 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Oneworld Publications