The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past
ISBN: 9780226322933 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years ago to the origin of the universe nearly fourteen billion years ago.
Hedman details, for example, how interdisciplinary studies of the Great Pyramids of Egypt can determine exactly when and how these incredible structures were built. He shows how the remains of humble trees can illuminate how the surface of the sun has changed over... Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows...
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Introduction to Random Time and Quantum Randomness (New Edition)
ISBN: 9789812384157 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work consists of two essays on the role of time in probability and quantum physics. In the first one, K.L. Chung explains why, in his view, probability theory starts where random time appears. In the second essay J.-C. Zambrini shows why quantum physi
This work consists of two essays on the role of time in probability and quantum physics. In the first one, K.L. Chung explains why, in his view, proba...
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The Illusion of Time
ISBN: 9781434359759 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sundials: Design, Construction, and Use
ISBN: 9780387098012 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sundials, which decorate church walls, public plazas, and elegant gardens, are first and foremost astronomical instruments. Before understanding how sundials work, one must first understand the apparent motion of the Sun in the sky. In this book, Denis Savoie presents the basics of astronomy required to understand sundials and describes how to design and build your own classical sundial. Written to engage all levels of science readers, the author shows the calculations involved in the sundial's construction and also gives a comprehensive history of time measurement.
The... Sundials, which decorate church walls, public plazas, and elegant gardens, are first and foremost astronomical instruments. Before understanding ho... |
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Time: Big Ideas, Small Books
ISBN: 9780312427276 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series Time has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But these days we are tampering with time in ways that affect how we live, the textures of our experience, and our very sense of what it is to be human. What is the nature of time in our time? Why is it that even as we live longer than ever... Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to ... |
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Athenian Calendars and Ekklesias
ISBN: 9789050632584 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Did Time Begin? Will Time End? Maybe the Big Bang Never Occurred
ISBN: 9789814280587 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although everyone is familiar with the concept of time in everyday life and has probably given thought to the question of how time began, scientific developments in this field have not been accessible in a simple understandable form. This book presents ideas about the role of time in theoretical cosmology.
Although everyone is familiar with the concept of time in everyday life and has probably given thought to the question of how time began, scientific d...
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Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization
ISBN: 9780292751972 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmstrom to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems--the intellectual achievement that gave rise to Mesoamerican civilization and culture. Malmstrom posits that the 260-day calendar marked the interval between passages of the sun at its zenith over Izapa, an ancient ceremonial center in the Soconusco region of Mexico's Pacific coastal... The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmstrom to discover an unexpected "hearth" of ... |
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In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time
ISBN: 9780312603519 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet as familiar as it is, time is also deeply mysterious. We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch it. Yet we do feel it--or at least we think we feel it. No wonder poets, writers, philosophers, and scientists have grappled with time for centuries. In his latest book, award-winning science writer Dan Falk chronicles the story of how humans have come to understand time over the millennia, and by drawing from the... Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experi... |
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
ISBN: 9780452296541 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time."
-Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step... "An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time."
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Time Travel: A story of time forever
ISBN: 9781439240854 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The primary aim of the book is to explain how time travel may in fact be possible, and how to achieve it. While skepticism is a difficult skin to shed entirely, I think this short manuscript brings up some very interesting points to consider regarding the feasibility of time travel.
The primary aim of the book is to explain how time travel may in fact be possible, and how to achieve it. While skepticism is a difficult skin to shed...
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The Little Book of Time
ISBN: 9781441929396 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 Time and Creation According to Saint Augustine 15 Time and Medieval Astronomy 18 20 Calendars and Clocks chapter 2 Time in the Worldview of Classical Physics 25 Absolute Time According to Newton 26 Relational Time According to Leibniz 30 Time in Classical Mechanics 31 Time in Kant's Epistemology 35 chapter 3 Relativistic Spacetime 43 Time in Special Relativity Theory 44 Time in General Relativity Theory 50 Time in Relativistic Cosmology 54...
chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 T...
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The Mathematics of Time: Essays on Dynamical Systems, Economic Processes, and Related Topics
ISBN: 9780387905198 / Angielski / Miękka / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780674061644 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical erudition, warmth, and whimsy: What is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted over time? How did the projection of Christ's 1,000-year reign become a secular measure? And when exactly does the millennium begin--January 1, 2000, or January 2, 2001?
Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical erudition, warmth, and whimsy: What is the concept of a millennium and how has i...
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The Study of Time III: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time Alpbach--Austria
ISBN: 9781461262893 / Angielski / Miękka / 727 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers in this volume were delivered and responded to at the Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The meeting took place during sunny days, punctuated by an occasional brief storm, in the confer ence facilities of the Osterreichisches College in Alpbach, Austria, from ]uly 1 to ]uly 10, 1976. In the middle of it came ]uly 4, the 200th anniversary of the Declaration ofindependence, and in honor ofparticipants from the United States there was a special session of papers on the subject of Freedom and Time. See Fraser, Park in this volume. ] The effect of the...
The papers in this volume were delivered and responded to at the Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The meeting took...
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Uninvited Future Observers
ISBN: 9781453731543 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. UFOs are real Uninvited Future Observers reveals the startling connection between the "flying discs" observed in present-day skies and the time traveling missions of future scientists.
UFOs are real Uninvited Future Observers reveals the startling connection between the "flying discs" observed in present-day skies and the time trave...
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Now: The Physics of Time
ISBN: 9780393354812 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. Einstein showed that the flow of time is affected by both velocity and gravity, yet he despaired at his failure to explain the meaning of "now." Equally puzzling: why does time flow? Some physicists have given up trying to understand, and call the flow of time an illusion, but the eminent experimentalist physicist Richard A. Muller protests. He says... You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has be... |
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Introduction to Random Time and Quantum Randomness
ISBN: 9789812383884 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work consists of two essays on the role of time in probability and quantum physics. In the first one, K.L. Chung explains why, in his view, probability theory starts where random time appears. In the second essay J.-C. Zambrini shows why quantum physics is not a regular probabilistic theory.
This work consists of two essays on the role of time in probability and quantum physics. In the first one, K.L. Chung explains why, in his view, proba...
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Roman Dialogues
ISBN: 9781469914848 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Time travel novel comparing the United States to the Roman Empire. A cross between the Da Vinci Code and Back to the Future.
Time travel novel comparing the United States to the Roman Empire. A cross between the Da Vinci Code and Back to the Future.
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The Book of Times: From Seconds to Centuries, a Compendium of Measures
ISBN: 9780062074188 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An endlessly fascinating, beautifully designed survey of time--how long things take, how long things last, and how we spend our days Our relationship to time is complex and paradoxical: Time stands still. Time also flies. Tomorrow is another day. Yet there's no time like the present. We want to do more in less time, but wish we could slow the clock. And despite all our time-saving devices--iPhones, DVRs, high-speed trains--Americans feel that they have less leisure time than ever. In an era when our time feels fractured and imperiled, The Book of Times encourages... An endlessly fascinating, beautifully designed survey of time--how long things take, how long things last, and how we spend our days Our rela... |
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