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This book covers contemporary and historical perceptions of time from scientific and intuitive vantages. Ancient and modern clocks, Augustinian ideas, the deterministic Newtonian universe, biological clocks, deep time, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and relativity contribute to the exploration of time using established technologies and science.

Produktbeschreibung
This book covers contemporary and historical perceptions of time from scientific and intuitive vantages. Ancient and modern clocks, Augustinian ideas, the deterministic Newtonian universe, biological clocks, deep time, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and relativity contribute to the exploration of time using established technologies and science.
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Autorenporträt
J. Woods Halley is a Professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His research group studies electrochemical phenomena, including the origin of life, as well as low temperature phases of many-body systems, including superfluidity and superconductivity, using analytical theory and computer simulation. He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has previously published books on the likelihood of extraterrestrial life and statistical mechanics.