In Search of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension - Tapa dura

Dan Falk is a riveting writer: his latest book is almost unputdown-able ... Time is a mysterious commodity: we gain, spend, save and lose it. But everyone should make enough time to read In Search of Time. --Martin J. Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of Just Six Numbers and Our Final Hour

Time has intrigued philosophers and scientists from Aristotle to Newton, from Zeno to Hawking. Falk has fun in his search for time, discussing it with researchers who make some educated guesses ... Falk s tour of time is worth a few hours of our own. --The Times

Falk deals entertainingly with the history of man s attempts to measure time, from the sun rising over Neolithic monuments to today s super-accurate atomic clocks. He discusses cultural differences ... and he describes the difficulties our ancestors faced in making sense of months and years that contain days and fractions of days ... An accessible and entertaining introduction to what is, perhaps, the deepest and most intractable secret of the universe. --Financial Times

The enigma of time has captivated journalist Dan Falk, who sets off on a journey In Search of Time. The quest takes him from the ancient observatories of stone-age Ireland 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. He speaks with anthropologists and historians about our deep desire to track time's cycles, asks psychologists and neuroscientists about the mysteries of memory and quizzes physicists about the beginning and end of time not to mention the latest theories about time travel and the paradoxes it seems to entail.