The clock mirage : our myth of measured time /

What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles?0Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging explor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mazur, Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Time.
Time > Philosophy.
Time perspective.
Time
Temps.
Temps > Philosophie.
Perspective temporelle.
time.
SCIENCE > Time.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • PART I. THE MEASURES
  • 1. Trickling Waters, Shifting Shadows (Telling Time)
  • Interlude: Olympic Racer Wins by One Hundredth of a Second
  • 2. Ringing Bells, Beating Drums (Use of Time)
  • Interlude: A Clockmaker Thinks about Time
  • 3. Eighth Day of the Week (Cycles of Time)
  • PART II. THEORISTS, THINKERS, AND OPINIONS
  • 4. Zeno's Quiver (The Stream of Time)
  • Interlude: Prison for Life without Parole
  • 5. The Material Universe (Philosophers' Time)
  • Interlude: Prisoners in Texas and Oklahoma
  • 6. Gutenberg's Type (Time in the First Information Age)
  • Interlude: Time Locked into the Present
  • 7. Enter Newton (Absolute Time)
  • PART III. THE PHYSICS
  • 8. What Is a Clock? (Time beyond the Observed)
  • Interlude: Time on the International Space Station
  • 9. Simultaneous Clocks (Calibrated Time)
  • Interlude: Another Time on the International Space Station
  • 10. Braced Unification (Space-Time)
  • Interlude: A Curious Dialogue
  • 11. Another Midnight in Paris (Traveling through Time)
  • PART IV. THE COGNITIVE SENSES
  • 12. The Big Question (The Sense and Place of Time)
  • Interlude: Time Is with Me
  • 13. Where Did It Go? (Acceleration of Time in Aging)
  • Interlude: The Slowest Clock in the World
  • 14. Feeling It (A Sense of Time)
  • Interlude: Undercover at an iPhone Assembly Plant in China
  • PART V. LIVING RHYTHMS
  • 15. The Master Pacemaker (The Eyes of Time)
  • Interlude: Time on the Trading Floor
  • 16. Internal Beat (Clocks in Living Cells)
  • Interlude: Long-Haul Truckers
  • 17. 1.5 Million Years (Circadian Synchronization)
  • Interlude: Time in the Sky
  • 18. Distorted Senses and Illusions (The Temperature of Time)
  • Interlude: My Strange View of Time
  • 19. Exoplanets and Biorhythms (Environmental Synchronizers)
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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