About Time: From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives
Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Oneworld Publications
- ISBN: 9781851689095
- Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 34 mm

















