Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

About Time

From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of the universe that we humans have been able to imagine ‘“ and its most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About Time, astrophysicist and award-winning writer Adam Frank tells the scientific story of this wonderful and tyrannical invention.A Palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day and star-steered night in a radically different way than the Elizabethan merchants who set their pace to the clocks newly installed in their town squares. Since then, science has swept time into increasingly minute and standardized units ‘“ the industrial efficiency of ironworks’™ punch clocks; the space-age precision of atomic fountains and GPS satellites; the fifteen-minute increments of Outlook’™s digital revolution. And in the past decade, string-theory branes, multiverses, and ‘œclockless” physics have begun to overturn our ideas about how the universe began ‘“ the Big Bang ‘“ in ways that will completely rewrite time and our experience of it. Weaving cosmology with day-to-day chronicles and a down-to-earth style, About Time is both dazzling and riveting as it confronts what comes next.

Related Products:

The Unknown Universe: What We Don`t Know About Time and Space in Ten Chapters The Universe Pocket Essential A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes How Space Works: The Facts Visually Explained Professor Astro Cat`s Atomic Adventure Mapping the Heavens The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Knowledge Encyclopedia Space! Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond The History of Space Exploration: Discoveries from the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future Element in the Room: Investigating the Atomic Ingredients that Make Up Your Home Philip`s Essential Guide to Space Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book Vargic`s Curious Cosmic Compendium: Space, the universe and everything within it Unlocking the Universe See Inside Space Hubble Cosmos: 25 Years of New Vistas in Space Space Exploration Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Visual Galaxy: The Ultimate Guide to the Milky Way and Beyond A History of the Universe in 100 Stars A Universe from Nothing Majestic Universe Pocket Eyewitness Space: Facts at Your Fingertips Joe`s 30 Minute Meals: 100 Quick and Healthy Recipes New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything A Revolutionn in Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind Our Wonderful Universe: An Easy Introduction to the Study of the Heavens Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality The Universe – A Biography The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything The Intimate Universe: How the Stars are Closer Than You Think The Bang-Bang Club The Complete Guide to Space Exploration Space Explorers: 20 Infographics to Explore the Universe The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond Professor Astro Cat`s – Frontiers of Space The Story of Space Beyond the Sky: You and the Universe