OUR conception of time intimately informs what it is to be human: with awareness of time comes awareness of one鈥檚 mortality. Time鈥檚 definition is elusive but Dan Falk is keen to track it down. In this thoroughly readable, broad-sweeping and thought-provoking book, Falk surveys humanity鈥檚 attempts to record and understand time, and poses some fascinating questions. How does the brain tell time? Is time a feature of the world or of the mind? For answers, he turns to philosophy and to physics, where only one thing is certain: as tells Falk, 鈥淭ime is not what we think it is.鈥�
In Search of Time
Thomas Dunne Books/Macmillan