‘Entertaining and engrossing’ Sean Carroll
Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history, from the first solstice markers at Newgrange to quartz crystal oscillating in your watch today. Science underpins time: measuring the movement of Sun, Earth and Moon, and unlocking the mysteries of quantum mechanics and relativity theory – the key to ultra-precise atomic clocks.
Yet time is also socially decided: the Gregorian calendar we use today came out of fraught politics, while the ancient Maya used sophisticated astronomical observations to produce a calendar system unlike any other. In his quirky and accessible style, Chad Orzel reveals the wondrous physics that makes time something we can set, measure and know.
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Brief History of Timekeeping
The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
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eBook - ePub
Brief History of Timekeeping
The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
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Topic
Physical SciencesSubtopic
World HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: A Clock Is a Thing That Ticks
- 1 Sunrise
- 2 The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
- 3 âGive Us Our Eleven Days!â
- 4 The Apocalypse That Wasnât
- 5 Drips and Drops
- 6 Ticks and Tocks
- 7 Heavenly Wanderers
- 8 Celestial Clockwork
- 9 To the Moon âŚ
- 10 Watch This
- 11 Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- 12 The Measure of Space-Time
- 13 Quantum Clocks
- 14 Time and Gravity
- 15 Time Enough for Everyone
- 16 The Future of Time
- Acknowledgments
- Recommended Reading
- Index
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