Time is a tool we use to meausre every aspect of our lives but rarely do we ponder the myriad of questions about it. Mainzer considers many questions concernin... » 

Time is a tool we use to meausre every aspect of our lives but rarely do we ponder the myriad of questions about it. Mainzer considers many questions concerning time, and provides an overview of the conceot of time from antiquity to the present. The book covers human concepts of time, from the ancients to Newton to Einstein's theory of relativity and the conceptions of time in quantum mechanics, with its consequences for modern cosmology. «