On Time: An Investigation Into Scientific Knowledge and Human ExperienceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1983 - 208 sayfa In this book, the author takes us on a guided tour of this new, relativistic universe where time is a central, but elusive, factor. He shows how complicated our time-keeping will become should we ever achieve the dream of traveling to the stars; how "black holes" stop time in its tracks; how the relationship between time and light limits our probing of the universe. |
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Preface and Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Elusiveness of Time | 13 |
The Measurement of Time | 26 |
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On Time: An Investigation Into Scientific Knowledge and Human Experience Michael Shallis Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 1982 |
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