TY  - BOOK
AU  - York,Derek
TI  - In search of lost time
SN  - 0750304758
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Bristol, Philadelphia
PB  - Institute of Physics Pub.
KW  - Geological time
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - fast
KW  - Earth (Planet)
KW  - Time
KW  - NA/Global
KW  - geological biological astronomical time
KW  - York, Derek
KW  - NA/Other
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -