In About Time, astrophysicist Adam Frank makes the case that our concept of cosmic time is inextricably linked to our notions of human time
TIME, like a slippery eel, is nigh on impossible to pin down. Even our most cherished ideas about it cannot be correct. How, for instance, can there be a “flow” of time? For something to flow it must move with respect to something else – like a river against a riverbank. For time to flow, there would have to exist a second type of time.
Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, argues that our…
