Biology Book Report: Inner Time By Carol Orlock

Biology Book Report: Inner Time

My book that I did my book report over is called “Inner Time” and the author is Carol Orlock. My book was over how time has such a large effect on the ecosystem. Back a few hundred years ago researchers got interested in plants and how they are affected by the sun. Some researchers would try and block out the sun from the plants to change the plants schedule, but sometimes it didn’t work and sometimes it did. What the researchers looked at to see if the plants were being effect was the petals, if the petals were opened the plant thought it was day and if the petals were closed they thought it was night. Researchers even attempted this with humans and had them stay in rooms cut off from the outside world and light, and the end result was

The tyranny of time began about a hundred years ago. Before that though people would follow the sun and when it rose they got up and when it set the settled down. Because they didn’t know what time it was they would just work until they were done, which was the majority of the day. A few things that sped up people’s knowledge of time was the telegraph, telephone, and railroads and the creation of time zones. A science-fiction writer in 1983 saw something important in it and made up a civilization on Mars where people were payed with units of time instead of money. She tells us about three specific kinds of clocks; the ultradian, circadian, and infradian. The ultradian are cycles that recur often in a single day, the circadian are cycles that take about a day, and the infradian are cycles that take a few weeks or more. Carol Orlock gives us one incident of this by carrying out a couple’s life together. In this example she gave us there is a hypothetical couple whose schedules are so different that it’s a wonder they ever see each other, then she speeds it up to the couple's offspring and how they would be living with pills