D. York

In Search of Lost Time (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A reflection of Derek York's obsession with time and its measurement, this book discusses the mind-bending universe of the special and general theories of relativity, the ghostly world of quantum mechanics, and the unpredictable haunts of chaos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429525636
• Artikelnr.: 56840360

Autorenporträt

York, D

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Pyramids
Stonehenge and the Chinese Oracle Bones-Same Time Next Year
2 The Age of the Earth; The Genesis Burden
3 The Age of Radioactivity
4 How Do You Date an Earth? 5 Modern-Day Adherents of Julius Africanus
6 A Carbon Time Machine
7 Children of Time
8 Dinosaurs
Meteorites and all that Jazz
9 Atomic 'Reactor' Operated 2 Billion Years Ago
10 Gulliver's Travels and Martian Moons-Time for Kepler
11 Chaos and Time
12 Time in the Quantum World
13 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
14 Much Ado About Cannonballs (and Democracies); Last Exit to Pisa
Next Exit Black Holes
15 The Arrow of Time
16 Time Enough for Our Universe
Index