“An insightful meditation within the curious nature of time…A highly illuminating intellectual analysis” (Kirkus Testimonials) explaining the sometimes contradictory ways we experience time.

“Time” is the most commonly used noun in the British language; it’s usually on our minds and it developments through every living instant. But what is time, exactly? Perform children encounter it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we’re tired and swiftness by once we get older? How and just why does time about Why Time Flies: A Mainly Scientific Investigation journey?

“Erudite and informative, a joy with many small treasures” (Technology), this witty and meditative exploration by award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick-“one of the finest science authors at the job today, with an uncanny ability to explain knotty topics, with humanity, and humor” (Publishers Weekly, staff pick, greatest books of 2016)-uses readers on an individual quest to comprehend how time gets in all of us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he appointments one of the most accurate time clock in the globe (which exists just on paper); discovers that “today” 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 minute in a neuroscientist’s lab, also makes time move backward.

“Why Period Flies captures us. Because it opens up a proper of fascinating inquiries and provides us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening mystery for humans: the nature of time” (The New York Times Book Review). This “intellectual adventure renders a hefty topic accessible to everyone” (Richmond Times-Dispatch), is an instant classic, a vibrant and intimate study of the clocks that tick inside us all.