An enjoyable and compelling ride through one of life's most
fascinating enigmas
"What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know," St. Augustine
of Hippo lamented. "But if I wish to explain to him who asks, I
know not."
Who wouldn't sympathize with Augustine's dilemma? Time is at once
intimately familiar and yet deeply mysterious. It is thoroughly
intangible: We say it flows like a river -- yet when we try to
examine that flow, the river seems reduced to a mirage. No wonder
philosophers, poets, and scientists have grappled with the idea of
time for centuries.
The enigma of time has also captivated science journalist Dan Falk,
who sets off on an intellectual journey In Search of Time. The
quest takes him from the ancient observatories of stone-age Ireland
and England to the atomic clocks of the U.S. Naval Observatory;
from the layers of geological "deep time" in an Arizona canyon to
Albert Einstein's apartment in Switzerland. Along the way he talks
to scientists and scholars from California to New York, from
Toronto to Oxford. He speaks with anthropologists and historians
about our deep desire to track time's cycles; he talks to
psychologists and neuroscientists about the mysteries of memory; he
quizzes astronomers about the beginning and end of time. Not to
mention our latest theories about time travel -- and the paradoxes
it seems to entail. We meet great minds from Aristotle to Kant,
from Newton to Einstein -- and we hear from today's most profound
thinkers: Roger Penrose, Paul Davies, Julian Barbour, David
Deutsch, Lee Smolin, and many more.
As usual, Dan Falk's style combines exhaustive research with a
lively, accessible, and often humorous style, making In Search of
Time a delightful tour through a most curious dimension.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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