Time: The Familiar Stranger [ illustrated] - Hardcover

Fraser, J. T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870235761 ISBN 13: 9780870235764

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987

Synopsis

Looks at the history of the idea of time, the origins of the universe, relativity, life, the brain's perception of time, aging, death, memory, and time keeping technology

About this title

From Library Journal:

Fraser's engaging book presents a discussion of clocks, calendars used throughout history, and time in various cultures. The unifying theme is the difference between pyschological time and time in modern physics. Science rejects the concept of time as always having the dimensions of past, present, and futureEinstein suggested objects exist in four-dimensional "spacetime." The author's skill prevents the reader from becoming lost in advanced physics, but on occasion he slips: the solution to Zeno's paradoxes does not work; and Marx did not say time was entirely a social convention. But this is a delightful book. David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0870235761
• ISBN 13: 9780870235764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408