Adam Frank 
About Time [EPUB ebook] 
From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes our Lives – And We Shape the Cosmos

From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time
From a Palaeolithic farmer living by the sun and stone plinths to the factory worker logging into an industrial punch clock to the modern manager enslaved to Outlook »s 15-minute increments, our relationship with time has constantly evolved alongside our scientific understanding of the universe. And the latest advances in physics – string-theory branes, multiverses, ‘clockless’ physics – are positioned to completely rewrite time in the coming years. Weaving cosmology with day-to-day chronicles and a lively wit, astrophysicist Adam Frank tells the dazzling story of humanity »s invention of time and how we will experience it in the future.