In Search of Lost Time
eBook - ePub

In Search of Lost Time

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In Search of Lost Time

About this book

Do you knowthat black holes can affect time?that Stonehenge is a giant calendar?that the Oracle Bones of the North China Plain predict the phases of the moon?that the Pyramids are giant compasses?how Jonathan Swift knew that Mars had two moons when he wrote Gulliver's Travels?that the effects of black holes are described i

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9780429525636
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 The Pyramids, Stonehenge and the Chinese Oracle Bones—Same Time Next Year
  10. 2 The Age of the Earth; The Genesis Burden
  11. 3 The Age of Radioactivity
  12. 4 How Do You Date an Earth?
  13. 5 Modern-Day Adherents of Julius Africanus
  14. 6 A Carbon Time Machine
  15. 7 Children of Time
  16. 8 Dinosaurs, Meteorites and all that Jazz
  17. 9 Atomic ‘Reactor’ Operated 2 Billion Years Ago
  18. 10 Gulliver’s Travels and Martian Moons—Time for Kepler
  19. 11 Chaos and Time
  20. 12 Time in the QuantÜm World
  21. 13 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
  22. 14 Much Ado About Cannonballs (and Democracies); Last Exit to Pisa, Next Exit Black Holes
  23. 15 The Arrow of Time
  24. 16 Time Enough for Our Universe
  25. Index