- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; First Edition edition (Mar 5 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1554680026
- ISBN-13: 978-1554680023
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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#194,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #38 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Physics > Time
- #39 in Books > Science > Experiments, Instruments & Measurement > Time
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"...This short, wonderful little book will stay with you for a long time to come." -- Edmonton Journal
"Soul of the World demonstrates how poets can help us rediscover the wonders that lie hidden within the sciences. It proves that we can sometimes slip through the locked doors that block off the deeper mysteries, using metaphor and the imagination as our keys." -- Vancouver Sun
“[A] his fascinating and teasingly mind-altering meditation on time . . . Dewdney's facility for making such cosmic abstractions immediate and practical is almost as remarkable as the idea of an eternal consciousness itself. But making it plain is this author's most bankable talent. This is a book through which the likes of Einstein, Stephen Hawking, wormhole theory, Norse mythology and nanotechnology may flit like the insects buzzing through Dewdney's Toronto garden in high summer, but never with sufficient weight to drag the author's deft intellectual buoyancy.” -- Toronto Star
"Soul of the World demonstrates how poets can help us rediscover the wonders that lie hidden within the sciences. It proves that we can sometimes slip through the locked doors that block off the deeper mysteries, using metaphor and the imagination as our keys." -- Vancouver Sun
“[A] his fascinating and teasingly mind-altering meditation on time . . . Dewdney's facility for making such cosmic abstractions immediate and practical is almost as remarkable as the idea of an eternal consciousness itself. But making it plain is this author's most bankable talent. This is a book through which the likes of Einstein, Stephen Hawking, wormhole theory, Norse mythology and nanotechnology may flit like the insects buzzing through Dewdney's Toronto garden in high summer, but never with sufficient weight to drag the author's deft intellectual buoyancy.” -- Toronto Star
Book Description
In Acquainted with the Night, Christopher Dewdney transformed the dark hours between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. into a riveting journey of discovery and wonder. Now he works a similar magic on every minute of today, tomorrow and yesterday, in a fascinating rumination on that most elusive of dimensions: time. Dewdney explores how time has been characterized by mythology, philosophy and art. In a wide-ranging narrative that embraces both science and poetry, he asks - and answers - all of the big questions. Why does time flow only in one direction? Can "now" last a million years? Why does time go faster the higher you are from the earth's surface? Is time travel actually possible? And how is it that over one lifetime the average North American will spend five years waiting in lineups - and nine years having sex?
Remarkably imagined and beautifully written, Soul of the World is a voyage through the seasons of a single year as Dewdney explores the world, encountering friends, family and strangers. Out of these anecdotes and incidents, the author teases extraordinary insights about the nature of time and how it influences us. Illuminating and complementing the book's content, this deeply personal discourse links the literary past, present and future.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Soul Of The World (Hardcover)
A fascinating book that covers a big topic excellently. It's very readable and full of amazing facts and stories. I was surprised to discover that gravity affects time, that time travel is possible and that every second contains a near eternity. My sense of what time is was completely changed by reading this wonderful book!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable read about Time.,
By MPWN "MPWN" (Toronto) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Soul Of The World (Hardcover)
I enjoyed reading this book, it was a mixture of science and poetry. I didn't know what to expect when I started reading it, all I knew was that the topic was very appealing to me. I've always been fascinated with the concept of eternity and how human existence is almost hopeless compared to the amount of time that comes after you die. The book shares the author's meditations about eternity and other similar concepts.The author lives in the same areas of Toronto that I do so all the better and more relatable for me.
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