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shimmija's review against another edition
3.0
Mul tekkis lugemisel aina enam küsimus, et kuhu selle jutuga tahetakse jõuda. Ja mitmeid lahtisi otsi jäeti või katkes lugu poole pealt.
Jutt lihtsalt jookseb kusagile teadmata suunas. Ja meeletult häiris, et polnud peatükistatud (paar suuremat ptk-i olid, aga just alapealkirjad vms oleks oluliselt loogilisemaks kogu raamatu teinud).
Lõpu poole oli isegi natuke piin ja ka sunnitud lugemine, mistap viimased ca 50lk jäid lugemata.
Siiski sain aru, et aeg on väga metateadus (ja nano-tasemel mõõtmine) :D Ja autori kaksikutest poegade lood olid üsna lõbused (ja mõningaid huvitavaid lapsekasvatamise aspekte sai ka kõrva taha pandud).
Jutt lihtsalt jookseb kusagile teadmata suunas. Ja meeletult häiris, et polnud peatükistatud (paar suuremat ptk-i olid, aga just alapealkirjad vms oleks oluliselt loogilisemaks kogu raamatu teinud).
Lõpu poole oli isegi natuke piin ja ka sunnitud lugemine, mistap viimased ca 50lk jäid lugemata.
Siiski sain aru, et aeg on väga metateadus (ja nano-tasemel mõõtmine) :D Ja autori kaksikutest poegade lood olid üsna lõbused (ja mõningaid huvitavaid lapsekasvatamise aspekte sai ka kõrva taha pandud).
nickertz's review against another edition
3.0
Everything you wanted to know about time and then some. The book covers the measurement of time from the sundial to the atomic clock. The use of time in navigation and other things that time is a part of. Covered in greater depth is how time is perceived by humans. What defines "now"? How does our sense of time passing change as we age. Well worth the time to read.
ursulamonarch's review
2.0
The subject of time is inherently pretty fascinating, so I enjoy reading a meditation on it. However, the author's angle is not satisfying to me - there are some interesting biological tidbits, but overall it's both too shallow and too deep at certain points. Personally, I like the parts about children and time, but a lot of it is pretty particular to the author's experience.
christinel's review
4.0
This book manages to be scientific, philosophical and a little poetic all at once. It's about how time feels to us and why it feels that way. Does our body track time? How? How long is the present moment? How is that manifested in our body? Is it really true that time flies, and seems to pass more quickly as we age? If so, why would that be? There is lots of dense science in here, and I had to read more slowly than I usually do in order to follow along, but it was radically different from anything else I had read (maybe closest to the Daniel Dennett I read in grad school), so I learned a lot that was entirely brand new to me. It also gave me the sense of how grand and intricate it all is - the world, our brains, our lives.
jenception's review
3.0
Listened to this on audiobook, which was very mind bending. Lost me on some of the neuroscience but captured me with the really interesting social experiments and personal anecdotes.
maebinnig's review against another edition
5.0
It's not even March, but I'm willing to say that Why Time Flies might be the best book that I read this year. (But whose calendar are we using to define "this year"? Naturally, our dates don't line up exactly with Earth's trip around the sun. How many different years did I read this book in?)
As the sub-title says, this book is a "mostly scientific" exploration of time--its nature, our perception of it (spoiler: the two are more or less the same thing), and the interesting ways we bend, catalogue, synchronize, and observe it. You'll never quite wrap your head around it entirely, but that's due to the subject matter, not the writing; despite the incredible topic, Why Time Flies is somehow so digestible that I was turning pages like it was a thriller.
But beyond just being exhaustively researched, filled with both up-to-the-minute academic interviews from exciting new fields and the musings of philosophers ages past, this book is pure poetry. It's science wrapped in soliloquy. For every bit that made me exclaim to whoever would listen, "Did you know that...?!", there was something that made me want to hug my kids, or flip through an old photo album, or stare quietly at the stars. This is a book about time, and Burdick appropriately wrote a celebration of life, "for [time] is the stuff life is made of."
(I received this book for free through a Goodreads giveaway.)
As the sub-title says, this book is a "mostly scientific" exploration of time--its nature, our perception of it (spoiler: the two are more or less the same thing), and the interesting ways we bend, catalogue, synchronize, and observe it. You'll never quite wrap your head around it entirely, but that's due to the subject matter, not the writing; despite the incredible topic, Why Time Flies is somehow so digestible that I was turning pages like it was a thriller.
But beyond just being exhaustively researched, filled with both up-to-the-minute academic interviews from exciting new fields and the musings of philosophers ages past, this book is pure poetry. It's science wrapped in soliloquy. For every bit that made me exclaim to whoever would listen, "Did you know that...?!", there was something that made me want to hug my kids, or flip through an old photo album, or stare quietly at the stars. This is a book about time, and Burdick appropriately wrote a celebration of life, "for [time] is the stuff life is made of."
(I received this book for free through a Goodreads giveaway.)
richardmtl's review against another edition
3.0
I found some parts interesting (like the 1st chapter on UTC, or the experiments on time perception with animals) but I got annoyed with the constant references to St. Augustine, and had hoped for a bit more science and a bit less philosophy. Still, an interesting read overall, but nothing earth-shatteringly-so.
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