title: Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
author:  Alan Burdick 
description: Alan Burdick offers a fascinating and searching account of how we perceive times passage. It will change the way you think about the past, and also the present. (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction)<br /><br />Alan Burdick turns an obsession with the nature of time into a thrilling questone that brilliantly illuminates a subject that haunts us all. Time may fly bybut at least whilereading these pages it is never wasted. (David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z)<br /><br />In his lucid, thoughtful, and beautifully written inquiry about timewhat is it, really? Did we invent it, or does it invent us?Burdick offers nothing less than a new way of reconsidering what it means to be human. (Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees)<br /><br />Burdick toursthat unsettling passage of existence we call timehow our brains process it, how infants first grasp it, how our conversations encode itand returns with a spellbinding, provocative book that will fill you with wonder. (Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers)<br /><br />A marvelous meditation on the subtle mysteries of time. (Olivia Judson, author of Dr. Tatianas Sex Advice to All Creation)<br /><br />This book blew my mind. (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit)<br /><br />Burdick is like a charming and witty river guide, exploring the tributaries and side-streams along the river of consciousnessthe science, the history, the literature, the deep and beautiful paradoxes that make us what we are.<i>Why Time Flies</i>will enhance your experience of what may be, in the end, the most intimate relationship of your liyour connection with the passage of time. (Jonathan Weiner, author of Long for this World)<br /><br />An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time . . . A highly illuminating intellectual investigation. (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>)<br /><br />"[Burdick] is one of the finest science writers at work today, with an uncanny ability explain knotty topics, with humanity, and humor." (<i>Publishers Weekly staff picks, best books of 2016</i>)<br /><br />"Burdick places his readers in the centers of their temporal universes." (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)
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  Copyright (C) 2021 Andrew Paul Dunar
  
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  Chapter One
  
  A Cold Day
  
  It was a cool winter day late in March as the large lecture hall at the state
  university filled with students and interested others. They had come to hear
  Doctor Josiah Stiner deliver a lecture about time travel and about his
  experiments studying time travel. He specifically lectured about a fantastic
  experiment that had become known as the Stiner Event.  The Stiner Event
  referred to an astrophysical phenomenon which became visible in the sky once
  each year on the exact same day, at the exact same time.  It lasted only a few
  minutes.  The Stiner Event had occurred like clockwork over a period of twenty
  years with increasing intensity each year.  It had suddenly stopped two and a
  half years ago.  On the date of its last appearance, Doctor Stiner’s research
  team had sent a helicopter, the