Keywords:
Cosmology-History.
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Geological time.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (154 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781420050745
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5760889
DDC:
523.109
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The pyramids, Stonehenge and the Chinese oracle bones-same time next year -- The pyramids of Giza -- Stonehenge -- The Chinese oracle bones and the evolution of calendars -- 2 The age of the earth -- the Genesis burden -- The removal of the Genesis burden -- Kelvin's evolution -- 3 The age of radioactivity -- Rutherford, Soddy and Boltwood meet the Marx brothers -- 4 How do you date an earth? -- The impact of meteorites -- Footnote -- 5 Modern-day adherents of Julius Africanus -- 6 A carbon time machine -- 7 Children of time -- Dating our human ancestors -- Potassium-argon dating -- Argon-argon dating -- Single-crystal laser dating -- The family tree -- Crossing the Rubicon -- 8 Dinosaurs, meteorites and all that jazz -- Worlds in collision -- Nemesis -- 9 Atomic 'reactor' operated 2 billion years ago -- 10 Gulliver's travels and Martian moons-time for Kepler -- 11 Chaos and time -- An outrageous statement -- 12 Time in the quantum world -- Man who made sense of the mad microworld -- Schrödinger's cat -- Quantum mechanics explains radioactivity -- Alice in quantum land -- 13 Impossible things before breakfast -- Back to the future -- 14 Much ado about cannonballs (and democracies) -- last exit to Pisa, next exit black holes -- Bleak holes-time's grave -- Time to meet black holes -- Black holes and twins -- 15 The arrow of time -- Entropy, the Big Bang and the Big Crunch -- 16 Time enough for our universe -- The constants of nature -- Index.
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