The Resource Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation, Alan Burdick
Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation, Alan Burdick
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The item Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation, Alan Burdick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen).
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- Summary
- ""Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly? In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that "now" actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist's lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all, "--Amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 301 pages
- Contents
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- Foreword
- The hours
- The days
- The instants
- Why time flies
- Isbn
- 9781416540281
- Label
- Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation
- Title
- Why time flies
- Title remainder
- a mostly scientific investigation
- Statement of responsibility
- Alan Burdick
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly? In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that "now" actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist's lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all, "--Amazon.com
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Burdick, Alan
- Dewey number
- 529/.2
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QB213
- LC item number
- .B925 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Time measurements
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
- SCIENCE / Time
- Label
- Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation, Alan Burdick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Foreword -- The hours -- The days -- The instants -- Why time flies
- Control code
- 1708092
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 301 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416540281
- Lccn
- 2016025791
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1708092
- (OCoLC)951465449
- Label
- Why time flies : a mostly scientific investigation, Alan Burdick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Foreword -- The hours -- The days -- The instants -- Why time flies
- Control code
- 1708092
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 301 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416540281
- Lccn
- 2016025791
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1708092
- (OCoLC)951465449
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