A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox

Scientific American Editors, "A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox"

eISBN: 1466824182, ASIN: B00AF692ZS | 2012 | EPUB/MOBI | 190 pages | 754 KB/922 KB

A Question of Time: The Ultimate Paradox by the Editors of Scientific American

“What time is it?” That simple question is probably asked more often in contemporary society than ever before. In our clock-studded world, the answer is never more than a glance away, and so we can blissfully partition our days into ever smaller increments for ever more tightly scheduled tasks. Modern scientific revelations about time, however, make the question endlessly frustrating. If we seek a precise knowledge of the time, the infinitesimal flash of now dissolves into a scattering flock of nanoseconds