Time surrounds us.
His awards include a Gold Medal for Radio Programming from the New York Festivals and the Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy from the American Ins.
About the Author: Dan Falk has written about science for The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Astronomy, Nature, and New Scientist, and has been a regular contributor to the CBC Radio programs Ideas and Quirks and Quarks.
Entertaining, illuminating, and ultimately thought provoking, In Search of Time reveals what some of our most insightful thinkers have had to say about time, from Aristotle to Kant, from Newton to Einstein, and continuing with the brightest minds of today.
Finally, he examines the puzzle of time\'s "flow," and the remarkable possibility that the passage of Time may be an illusion.
Falk looks at the quest to comprehend the beginning of Time and how time--and the universe--may end.
He explores the possibility of Time travel, and the paradoxes it seems to entail.
In Search of Time begins with our earliest ancestors\' perception of Time and the discoveries that led--with much effort--to the Gregorian calendar, atomic clocks, and "leap seconds." Falk examines the workings of memory, the brain\'s remarkable "bridge across time," and asks whether humans are unique in their ability to recall the past and imagine the future.
In his latest book, award-winning science writer Dan Falk chronicles the story of how humans have come to understand Time over the millennia, and by drawing from the latest reSearch in physics, psychology, and other fields, Falk shows how that understanding continues to evolve.
No wonder poets, writers, philosophers, and scientists have grappled with Time for centuries.
Yet we do feel it--or at least we think we feel it.
We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch it.
Yet as familiar as it is, Time is also deeply mysterious.
Time is the very foundation of conscious experience.
It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour.
Time surrounds us
