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Time and age : time machines, relativity, and fossils / Michael Mark Woolfson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolfson, Michael M. (Michael Mark), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time measurements.
- Clocks and watches--History.
- Clocks and watches.
- Space and time.
- Special relativity (Physics).
- Statistical astronomy.
- Geological time.
- Earth (Planet)--Age.
- Earth (Planet).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Distribution:
- Hackensack, New Jersey ; London, [England] : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [date of distribution not identified]
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Imperial College Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of water or the steady burning of candles through to the atomic clock that records time with incredible precision. The classical idea of time as something that progresses at a uniform rate and as something that is the same to all observers was overturned by Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The conclusions coming from this theory are described, including the anti-intuitive twin paradox where one twin, returning from a journey to a distant star, is younger than his twin brother. Also covered is how age can be determined in a wide range of situations, such as how we work out the age of the Universe to how we calculate the age of artefacts that are just a few centuries old.
- Contents:
- The measurement of time. ch. 1. Astronomical time
- ch. 2. Early recording of time
- ch. 3. Mechanical clocks
- ch. 4. Modern timekeeping
- Time and relativity. ch. 5. Time and space
- The ages of astronomical entities. ch. 6. The age of the Universe
- ch. 7. The ages of globular clusters and young stars
- ch. 8. The age of the Solar System
- Ages on Earth. ch. 9. The age of the continents
- ch. 10. The ages of fossils
- ch. 11. The history of life on Earth
- ch. 12. The ages of archaeological remains.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783265848
- 1783265841
- 9781783265855
- 178326585X
- OCLC:
- 905918560
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