Time in powers of ten / Natural phenomena and their timescales Gerard't Hooft, Stefan vandoren
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TextPublication details: Singapore World Scientific 2014Description: 212 pISBN: - 9789814489812
- 529 HOO-G
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In this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales. In the tradition of the bestseller Powers of Ten, the authors zoom in and out in time, each step with a factor of ten. Starting from one second, time scales are enlarged until processes are reached that take much longer than the age of the universe. After the largest possible eternities, the reader is treated to the shortest and fastest phenomena known. Then the authors increase with powers of t.
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