About time
Subtitle: from sundials to quantum clocks, how the cosmos shapes our lives-- and how we shape the cosmos
By: Adam Frank
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Richmond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781851689095
Subjects: Time
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Talking sky, working stone and living field : from prehistory to the agricultural revolution; title: The city, the cycle and the epicycle : from the urban revolution to a rational universe; title: The clock, the bell tower and the spheres of God : from the medieval monastery to the renaissance cosmos; title: Cosmic machines, illuminated night and the factory clock : from Newton's universe to thermodynamics and the Industrial Revolution; title: The telegraph, the electric clock and the block universe : the imperatives of simultaneity from time zones to Einstein's cosmos; title: The expanding universe, radio hours and washing machine time : speed, cosmology and culture between the world wars; title: The Big Bang, Telstar, and a new Armageddon : the nuclear big bang's triumph in a televised space age; title: Inflation, cell phones and the outlook universe : information revolutions and the big bang gets in trouble; title: Wheels within wheels : cyclic universes and the challenge of quantum gravity : eternal time through repeating time; title: Ever-changing eternities : the promise and perils of a multiverse : eternal inflation, arrows of time and the anthropic principle; title: Giving up the ghost : the end of beginnings and the end of time : cosmology's radical alternatives in three acts; title: In the fields of leaning grass : ending the beginning in human and cosmic time.