In search of lost time

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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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Title Statements

Full title :In search of lost time / Derek York.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1997.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Institute of Physics Pub
Place of Publication:Bristol
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1997.

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Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 141 pages : : illustrations.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429187100, 0429187106
oclc:on1330982162
LC Classification:QE508
Dewey Decimal:551.7

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.