Why Time Flies

Alan Burdick is a senior staff editor at The New York Times and a former senior editor and staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author, most recently, of "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation." He has written for numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, Natural History, and Outside. Alan's first book, "Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion," was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in nonfiction and won the Overseas Press Club award for environmental reporting.

出版者:Simon & Schuster

作者:Alan Burdick

页数:320

出版时间:2017-1-24

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781416540274

图书标签:科普时间心理学得到听过1遍每天听本书哲学新書

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“[Why Time Flies] captures us. Because it opens up a well of fascinating queries and gives us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening mystery for humans: the nature of time.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Erudite and informative, a joy with many small treasures.” —Science

“Time” is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it’s always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we’re bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?

In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that “now” actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist’s lab, even makes time go backward. Why Time Flies is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all.

读后感

本书是关于时间的哲学、心理、生物、 数学 、物理的常识科普，谈的都不深不难懂，但恰好都是我感兴趣。 实际上，我们现在日常对于时间的认知，是以一种观察为基础的事实，通常被称为经验事实。这个经验事实很大一部分原因，又是来自于我们唾手可得的时间指示工具。手表，手机，...  

很多喜欢外出旅游的朋友都有这样的尴尬经历，兴奋的到达期盼的旅游景点，却不得不面对肠胃不适的问题，以至于不敢吃不敢喝。面对这一问题有的人要么提前备好药物，要么不敢品尝当地的美食，更有甚者自带干粮。很多人把这一问题归结食品不卫生，或者归结为自己水土不服，可从来...

正如同庄子所言：“人生天地之间，若白驹之过隙，忽然而已。”人类对时间的概念永远充满着神秘主义的崇敬和思考。而对于身处在三维世界的我们来说，走在宛如一条奔流往东不可复回的时间长河中，可能就是人活于世的所有宿命和意义。于是，当我们尝试着在这样的人生设定中去探讨...  

有首歌里这样唱着“门前老树长新芽 院里枯木又开花，半生存了好多话 藏进了满头白发……时间都去哪儿了，还没好好感受年轻就老了……”随着年龄的增长，我们越来越能感觉到时间的流逝，会感慨着一年的时间就这么过去，而当新的一年开始时候，这样的感慨又会如此这般循环。 究...  

用户评价

以为是新知，结果是散文....事隔这么多年我还是读不进散文....

我们感知的当下，相对于现实已经有了细微的滞后。而因为大脑需要对信息进行处理，也就可能会对现实产生错觉。当我们欢乐的时候，时间并没有飞逝。只是当快乐结束之后，我们才发现时间没有了。当我们说时光飞逝的时候，正确的表达方式应该是：我们根本没在意时间的流淌。

【得到】为什么时间飞逝？因为本就如此。20170104

每天听本书听过，最重要的概念就是那0.08秒，时间时间是大脑拼凑的现实。

【得到】为什么时间飞逝？因为本就如此。20170104