In Search of Now
The Science of the Present Moment
Will be published approx. on 17. March 2026
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-324-09748-8 (ISBN)
Description
What is Now? This immediate moment, what we're experiencing right now ... it bathes us like air, or gravity. Yet when we try to grasp this quality, to scrutinize it or bring it into focus, it vanishes, slipping through our fingers like a dream. And worse, according to the most trusted models of physics, Now doesn't even exist. If all this is so, then what, exactly, are we experiencing? How do we carve out time, sensation, self, and meaning from a blank, Now-less canvas?
In In Search of Now, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant attempts to answer these questions with characteristic flair and clarity, taking us on a grand tour of the latest thinking from physics, neuroscience, cosmology, and psychiatry about the fundamental essence and individual experience of time. Part personal journey, part philosophical meditation, and above all a fascinating scientific exploration, In Search of Now shows us what we can learn about time, both from the outside in-the cosmic perspective of physics-and as we experience it, from the inside out.
In In Search of Now, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant attempts to answer these questions with characteristic flair and clarity, taking us on a grand tour of the latest thinking from physics, neuroscience, cosmology, and psychiatry about the fundamental essence and individual experience of time. Part personal journey, part philosophical meditation, and above all a fascinating scientific exploration, In Search of Now shows us what we can learn about time, both from the outside in-the cosmic perspective of physics-and as we experience it, from the inside out.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-09748-8 (9781324097488)
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Jo Marchant, PhD, is the author of several popular books, including The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars (2020) and the New York Times bestseller Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body (2016), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in London.