Time & space
Title:
Time & space
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Discover ideas about the Universe from the flat Earth to black holes.
Other Title:
Time and space
Year Published:
1994
Series:
Physical Description:
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Space and time -- Ideas of the ancients -- Made to measure -- Exploring the globe -- Putting the Earth in perspective -- Measuring time -- Like clockwork -- Biotime -- Biospace -- Timescales of history -- The shapes of space and time -- Putting the Universe in order -- The ultimate law of nature -- The ultimate speed limit -- The marriage of space and time -- Special theory, proofs and tests -- The philosophy of time -- Beyond common sense -- Getting a grip on spacetime -- General theory, proofs and tests -- Black holes and beyond -- Across the Universe -- Across the universes -- God's dice -- Ultimate length -- Ultimate time -- Strings and things -- The birth of space and time -- How to build a time machine.
Program Information:
Reading Counts! 7.5 8.0
Subject:
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780789467157
Publisher:
London ; New York : DK Pub., c1994.
