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100 1 _aYork, Derek,
_eauthor.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89615871
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245 1 0 _aIn search of lost time /
_cDerek York.
246 3 0 _aLost time
264 1 _aBristol ;
_aPhiladelphia :
_bInstitute of Physics Pub.,
_c[1997]
264 4 _c©1997
300 _axii, 141 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
336 _astill image
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_2rdacontent
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _aFrom 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.
562 _331560000038709
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590 _ameasuring long (geological, astronomical, historic) time intervals
650 0 _aGeological time.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054035
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650 0 _aCosmology.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033169
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650 7 _aCosmology.
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650 7 _aGeological time.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00940612
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651 0 _aEarth (Planet)
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040427
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651 7 _aEarth (Planet)
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653 0 _aTime
653 5 _aNA/Global
653 3 _ageological biological astronomical time
653 1 _aYork, Derek
653 1 _aNA/Other
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