Book description
Why are there morning people and night people? How come time flies
when you re having fun and three minutes can sometimes seem an
eternity? Would time exist if we didn t measure it and why is
there never enough of it?
Our modern lives are ruled by minutes and hours. We race from one
thing to the next, all of us believing on some level that a mysterious
cosmic force called time is ticking on. And it s always in
short supply.
But is the time we live really like that? Could there in fact be
another, alternative version, entwined with the official one? Here
Stefan Klein explores the hidden dimensions of time, looking at
everything from when the present becomes the past to the tribe that
see the future backwards, from when sex is best to why the years seem
to speed by as we age. And he reveals how we can learn to live in
harmony with the secret clock within us, altering our perceptions to
transform our lives.
To be enjoyed in the morning or the evening (depending on your body
clock), this book will make you think the next time you check your
watch and maybe even slow down a little.
Stefan Klein was born in Munich. He studied physics and philosophy at
the universities of Munich and Grenoble and completed his PhD in
biophysics in Freiburg. He has written for all of the large
German-language newspapers and magazines. He was science editor of
Der Spiegel
from 1996-1999, and on-staff writer with GEO from 1999-2000. He is now
a freelance writer in Berlin. He is considered one of the most
influential science writers in German- speaking Europe. In 1998 he won
the prestigious Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Scientific Journalism.
His much-acclaimed slim volume
The Diaries of Creation
was published in 2000. His work
The Science of Happiness
has sold more than 300 000 copies in German alone since its release in
2002 and was translated into 24 languages.
