Category Archives: Time

Did Time Begin? Will Time End?: Maybe the Big Bang Never Occurred

Although everyone is familiar with the concept of time in everyday life and has probably given thought to the question of how time began, latest scientific developments in this field have not been accessible in a simple understandable form. This … Continue reading

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Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics

Filling the need for a book that conveys the current technology as well as the underlying history and physical background, this book tells physicists and engineers how to measure time to the precision required for modern-day use. The authors draw … Continue reading

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Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything

“Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting,” writes Doug Macdougall. “It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper.” In Nature’s Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious … Continue reading

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Time in Quantum Mechanics – Vol. 2 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

The treatment of time in quantum mechanics continues to be a key challenge in the foundation of quantum theory. This book follows Time in Quantum Mechanics—Volume 1 and is the second volume to detail the problems, attempts and achievements in … Continue reading

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Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture (Three Volume Set)

“With a strong interdisciplinary approach to a subject that does not lend itself easily to the reference format, this work may not seem to support directly academic programs beyond general research, but it is a more thorough and up-to-date treatment … Continue reading

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Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything

“Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting,” writes Doug Macdougall. “It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper.” In Nature’s Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious … Continue reading

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Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened

Understanding how we pinpoint the past is crucial to putting the present in perspective and planning for the future. Now, for the first time, journalist and geologist Chris Turney explains to the non-specialist exactly how archaeologists, paleontologists, and geologists “tell … Continue reading

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Calendrical Calculations

A valuable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, this new edition of the popular calendars book expands the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants: generic cyclical calendars … Continue reading

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Time in Quantum Mechanics (Lecture Notes in Physics) (v. 1)

The treatment of time in quantum mechanics is still an important and challenging open question in the foundation of the quantum theory. This book describes the problems, and the attempts and achievements in defining, formalizing and measuring different time quantities … Continue reading

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The Language and Reality of Time

Thomas Sattig develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time, and offers an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist’s conception, and … Continue reading

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