Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation (Hardcover)

from dasam

Alan Burdick manages to take us on a journey of time, through time, and around time. He brings to this exploration philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and personal memoir.

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There are many passages of lovely writing in this book, and I kept getting tempted to quote from it. It's an extended meditation on time in history, time in the world, and time in the brain; about time as duration, time as simultaneity, and time as a collection of events. It ranges from the agree...

from caimanjosh

I was rather disappointed with this one. Much of the book seemed like a tedious investigation of hairsplitting aspects of how the mind processes fractions of a second, which didn't really do much to further my understanding of why time seems to often pass more quickly or slowly in general. Only t...

from vpfluke

An interesting book on time its measurement, and the perception of time, frequently false or misleading. The exactness of time can be misleading and is truly hard to measure, and requires a degree of statistical sampling. Time did make for an interesting discussion at our library book club.

from dasam

Alan Burdick manages to take us on a journey of time, through time, and around time. He brings to this exploration philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and personal memoir.