Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation Audiobook (Free)

“An insightful meditation for the curious nature of period…A highly illuminating intellectual investigation” (Kirkus Testimonials) explaining the sometimes contradictory methods we experience period.

“Time” may be the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s usually on our minds and it advances through every living instant. But what is time, exactly? Do children knowledge it the same way adults do? How come it seem to slow down when we’re uninterested and speed by even as we grow older? How and why does period about Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation journey?

“Erudite and beneficial, a joy numerous little treasures” (Technology), this witty and meditative exploration by award-winning author and New Yorker staff article 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)-calls for readers on a personal quest to comprehend how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. Together with scientists, he appointments probably the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that “right now” actually occurred a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in your day; lives in the Arctic to reduce all sense of your time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist’s lab, even makes time go backward.

“Why Period Flies catches us. Because it opens up a proper of fascinating inquiries and provides us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening secret for humans: the type of time” (The New York Times Publication Review). This “intellectual experience renders a hefty topic available to the general public” (Richmond Times-Dispatch), is an instant classic, a brilliant and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside people.