Time in powers of ten : natural phenomena and their timescales / Gerard't Hooft & Stefan Vandoren ; translated by Saskia Eisberg-'t Hooft ; with a foreword by Steven Weinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooft, G. 't, author.

Vandoren, S. (Stefan), author.

Contributor:

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021, writer of foreword.

Eisberg-'t Hooft, Saskia, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Miscellanea.

Science.

Time--Miscellanea.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales. In the tradition of the bestseller Powers of Ten , the authors zoom in and out in time, each step with a factor of ten. Starting from one second, time scales are enlarged until processes are reached that take much longer than the age of the universe. After the largest possible eternities, the reader is treated to the shortest and fastest phenomena known. Then the authors increase with powers of t

Contents:

10,800 seconds = 3 hours The duration of a flight by Concorde from London or Paris to New YorkChapter 6 105 seconds = 100,000 seconds = 1.16 days = 27.78 hours; 86,400 seconds = 24 hours Lifetime of a mayfly, also known in other languages as the 'one-day fly'; 144,000 seconds = 40 hours For many of us, the duration of a working week; Chapter 7 106 seconds = 1,000,000 = 1 million seconds = 11.57 days = 1.65 weeks; 11 days The difference between a lunar year and a solar year; 13 days Duration of the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War

Chapter 12 1010 seconds = 10 billion seconds = 317 years335 years The duration of the war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, from 1651 to 1986; 400 to 500 yearsThe duration of the 'short ice age'; Chapter 13 1011 seconds = 100 billion seconds = 3,171 years; 4,600 years The oldest pyramids; 4,845 years The age of the oldest living treeas of 2014; 5,000 Years Dolmens in Northern Europe; Chapter 14 1012 seconds = 1 trillion seconds = 31,710 years; Chapter 15 1013 seconds = 1013 trillion seconds = 317,098 years; 479,452 years Traffic congestion per year in the United States

Chapter 16 1014 seconds = 100 trillion seconds = 3.17 million years

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 12, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814494922

9814494925