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BOOK OF TIME:
ADAM HART-DAVIS Book Number: 73163 Product format: Hardback

The author needs no introduction. He has been informing and entertaining TV audiences for years. In this thought-provoking book, he investigates how philosophers, scientists and religious leaders have tried to explain the concept of time, and comes up against such puzzles as how a jellyfish can sting you in less than a microsecond, although you will not feel the pain for a million times longer. He asks if time really does slow down when you are bored and speed up in emergencies, and ponders on whether there was a beginning and will be an end to time. For at least 20,000 years, from calendar wheels and water clocks to quartz chronometers, people have been charting days and months by the moon. Recently, scientists have discovered that a great variety of animals and plants, as well as tides and women of child-bearing age, also respond to it. Even trees swell and shrink as the moon waxes and wanes. Now, our year of 365.2419 days is only 27 seconds out of sync with the sun, which is pretty accurate but, how does science view time? Einstein believed that time is relative, and depends on your point of view. Many scientists say that time travel into the future is possible and, as Adam Hart-Davis says, we all do it, at one second per second! Read his book and time will just fly by. 256 pages 25cm x 19.5cm very lavishly illustrated, mostly in colour.
Published price: £20
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