Storia del tempo. Misurare il tempo da Zenone alla fisica quantistica

a little too abrupt

Interesting, basically a very eloquent beating around the bush in 19 chapters. Time has some deeply mysterious aspects. The chapter about the biological mechanisms which define our circadian clock inside is very good. 3.5 stars

I do plan on rereading this book again (there's brief mention of physics concepts and I'd like to refamiliarize myself), and my rating may change; however, I think 3 stars is a good rating. I do like the detail he gave about clocks and when humans started measuring time. He explains everything well

I really enjoyed reading The Clock Mirage by Joseph Mazur. As someone who's first subject isn't math I found it very easy to read and understand. I highly enjoyed the human elements added to the book. I think it was important that he talked about social issues like how time effects prisoners. That g Leggi tutto

Super interesting This book was super interesting but unfortunately, a lot of it went over my head. I suppose I am with the mathematical scaffolding he refers to, so didn’t grasp the formulas. Plus there was jargon I didn’t understand. I suspect I would grasp more on a second listening. All the stuff Leggi tutto

I really wanted to delve in this book but it just didn’t get me with all the stuff on clocks in the opening chapters, the way the world divided time into weeks, months, minutes, and then philosophy. Ended up speed reading and didn’t do it justice.

Initially intrigued by learning more about time as a concept, I was surprised to jump in with both feet into a book heavily based in physics. This book provided a good history of time as well as what it is (as much as one can define). Very good book