![]() She looks at the skydiver Chuck Berry, whose parachute failed, and the BBC journalist Alan Johnston's experience of being taken hostage, to show the expansion of time in a near-death situation notes the experiences of the French speleologist Michel Siffre, who spent two months in an underground cave to find out how much our sense of time is thrown without external clues and adds in a few pleasingly eccentric stories, such as the man who takes a photo every 20 seconds so that his life can be recalled – in its entirety. ![]() Some of Time Warped is on tried-and-tested ground: no one questions that time travels differently if you are scared rather than relaxed that an hour in amusing company speeds by faster than half the time with someone who is dull, but Hammond's examples of time-warping add insight to these observations. ![]()
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