The secret pulse of time: making sense of life's scarcest commodity
Date: 25 May 2010, 06:04
The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books | English | February 2, 2009 | ISBN: 0738212563 | PDF | 368 pages | 1.4Mb Starred Review. A witty, engrossing journey through the science, culture, concept and nature of time, the latest from German science journalist Klein (The Science of Happiness) is a treatise on temporality brimming with insight. Exploring the extensive research on time perception-from Michel Siffre subjecting himself to months alone in a pitch-dark cave to the burrowing behavior of single-celled euglena-Klein amasses hard evidence, amusing anecdotes and unlikely consequences of the enormous disparity between time as we perceive it (inner time) and time as we conceptualize it (i.e, clock time).
