About Time: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang Audiobook

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• “A phenomenal blend of science and cultural history.”

  — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

• A phenomenal blend of science and cultural history.

  — Kirkus Starred Review

• “A fascinating and comprehensive survey of how technology—from farming to railways to telegraphy to the internet—has changed our everyday concept of time. [Frank] is excellent at showing how our ideas of human and cosmic time have evolved hand-in-hand… Frank’s thesis that our notions of cosmic and human time are braided together is compelling.”

  — New Scientist

• “An eloquent book.”

  — Nature

• “Frank, cofounder of NPR’s 13.7: Cosmos & Culture blog and frequent contributor to Discover and Astronomy magazines, here endeavors to reconstruct our understanding of time—both what he calls human time and cosmological time—with the contention that we are poised for a new definition or experience of time. He begins by ushering readers from the prehistoric to the modern era, showing how the cycles of nature and the sky became integrated into human culture over time. Next, he discusses cosmological time and lays out his proposal for a new “order” of time. The narrative is punctuated with vignettes, some of them amusing, designed to highlight and enrich various points of the narrative. Vedict: this will fascinate anyone curious about the nexus of astronomy and history and, of course, time. Recommended.”

  — Library Journal

• “‘Time’ is the most used noun in the English language, yet we still don’t really understand it. Adam Frank tells the fascinating story of how humans have struggled to make sense of time, especially in the context of the universe around us. From prehistory to the Enlightenment, through Einstein and on to the multiverse, this is a rich and inspiring tour through some of the biggest ideas that have ever been thought.”

  — Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time