In Search of Lost Time

by D York

Overview

Do you know
that 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429525636
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/26/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

York, D

Table of Contents

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 two 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.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a delightful little book."
- Nature

"The trouble with time is that there is so much of it. Since writers woke up to this fact, book after book has appeared with histories of its past and histrionics about its future. So how to tell the wheat from the chaff? Try asking whether the work adds to our understanding of the meaning, measurement, or consequence of time? Derek York's In Search of Lost Time passes this test. It contains a kernel of novel material about how we learned to determine the ages of the oldest things on Earth - rocks, artifacts, and fossils - as well as how we became comfortable with a world that was not thousands but billions of years old. This is not to be found in other books on time."
- New Scientist

"This is a very enjoyable set of essays. The book is written in language that makes it accessible to the non-scientific and general reader and is well recommended."
- Aslib Book Guide

"The author's fascination … with time is obvious throughout this excellent book … thoroughly readable, highly entertaining, and totally accessible to anyone from the interested GCSE student upward …"
- Schools Science Review

"…a prodigy of divulgation and entertainment … . No doubt, it will open our eyes."
- The Science Book Board

"…he makes several difficult topics readily understandable … . A worthwhile book for anyone with some background in science looking for entertainment or enlightenment."
- Choice

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