a��Timea�\x9d is the most commonly used noun in the English language; ita�TMs always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when wea�TMre bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?
a��Erudite and informative, a joy with many small treasuresa�\x9d (Science), this witty and meditative exploration by award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick a�" a��one of the finest science writers at work today, with an uncanny ability to explain knotty topics, with humanity, and humora�\x9d (Publishers Weekly, staff pick, best books of 2016) a�" takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that a��nowa�\x9d actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientista�TMs lab, even makes time go backward.