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What is Time?
- The classic account of the nature of time
Af: G. J. Whitrow
Engelsk
Bogcover for What is Time? af G. J. Whitrow, 9780198607816
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
186
ISBN-13:
9780198607816
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0198607814
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Udg. Dato:
11 dec 2003
Størrelse i cm:
19,9 x 13,0 x 1,0
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
11 dec 2003
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What is Time?

- The classic account of the nature of time
Af: G. J. Whitrow
Engelsk
Paperback 2003
Format:
Paperback
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G. J. Whitrow (1912-2000) begins this classic exploration of the nature of time with a story about a Russian poet, visiting London before the First World War. The poet''s English was not too good and when he asked a man in the street, ''Please, what is time?'' he received the response, ''But that''s a philosophical question. Why ask me?''. Starting from this simple anecdote, Professor Whitrow takes us on a good-humoured and wide-ranging tour of the thing that clocks keep (more or less). He discusses how our ideas of time originated; how far they are inborn in plants and animals; how time has been measured, from sundial and hourglass to the caesium clock, and whether time possesses a beginning, a direction, and an end. He coaxes the diffident layman to contemplate with pleasure the differences between cyclic, linear, biological, cosmic, and space-time, and he provides frequent diversions into fascinating topics such as the Mayan calendar, the migration of birds, the dances of bees, precognition, and the short, crowded lives of mu-mesons, particles produced by cosmic-ray showers that exist for just two millionths of a second.This reissue of the classic and authoritative What is Time? includes a new introduction by Dr J. T. Fraser, founder of the International Society for the Study of Time, and a bibliographic essay by Dr Fraser and Professor M. P. Soulsby of the Pennsylvania State University.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
186
ISBN-13:
9780198607816
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0198607814
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 dec 2003
Størrelse i cm:
19,9 x 13,0 x 1,0
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
11 dec 2003
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