In search of lost time / Derek York.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xii, 141 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0750304758
  • 9780750304757
Other title:
  • Lost time
Subject(s):
Contents:
The pyramids, Stonehenge and the Chinese oracle bones: same time next year -- The age of the earth: the Genesis burden -- The age of radioactivity -- How do you date an earth? -- Modern-day adherents of Julius Africanus -- A carbon time machine -- Children of time -- Dinosaurs, meteorites and all that jazz -- Atomic 'reactor' operated 2 billion years ago -- Gulliver's travels and Martian moons: time for Kepler -- Chaos and time -- Time in the quantum world -- Impossible things before breakfast -- Much ado about cannonballs (and democracies); last exit to Pisa, next exit black holes -- The arrow of time -- Time enough for our universe.
Summary: From the pyramids of Egypt to the Patent Office in Berne, this book details mankind's quest to measure and understand time itself. Special and general relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos theory are discussed in a non-technical style for the lay reader.
Holdings
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QE508 .Y6723 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000038709

Includes index.

The pyramids, Stonehenge and the Chinese oracle bones: same time next year -- The age of the earth: the Genesis burden -- The age of radioactivity -- How do you date an earth? -- Modern-day adherents of Julius Africanus -- A carbon time machine -- Children of time -- Dinosaurs, meteorites and all that jazz -- Atomic 'reactor' operated 2 billion years ago -- Gulliver's travels and Martian moons: time for Kepler -- Chaos and time -- Time in the quantum world -- Impossible things before breakfast -- Much ado about cannonballs (and democracies); last exit to Pisa, next exit black holes -- The arrow of time -- Time enough for our universe.

From the pyramids of Egypt to the Patent Office in Berne, this book details mankind's quest to measure and understand time itself. Special and general relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos theory are discussed in a non-technical style for the lay reader.

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measuring long (geological, astronomical, historic) time intervals

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