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In Search of Lost Time (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
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In Search of Lost Time (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
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Do you know
that black holes can affect time?
that Stonehenge is a giant calendar?
that the Oracle Bones of the North China Plain predict the phases
of the moon?
that the Pyramids are giant compasses?
how Jonathan Swift knew that Mars had two moons when he wrote
Gulliver's Travels?
that the effects of black holes are described in the story of Alice
in Wonderland?
that an atomic reactor existed 2 billion years ago in Equatorial
Africa?
that an electron on the other side of the galaxy can deflect a
billiard ball?
that Schrodingers cat is both alive and dead?
Derek York fathoms these and many other mysteries of time and space
in In Search of Lost Time. A reflection of York's obsession with
time and its measurement, the book discusses the mind-bending
universe of the special and general theories of relativity, the
ghostly world of quantum mechanics, and the unpredictable haunts of
chaos.
It explores the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, and the South China
plain; the universities of Cambridge, McGill, and Chicago; the
Patent Office in Berne; and back to the Ethiopian desert on the
banks of the Awash River. Companions to share and illuminate the
path range from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Lewis
Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to J.B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner.
It also presents the father of master-spy Kim Philby in the Empty
Quarter of Arabia, the fantasist Velikovsky in the clouds, and
Newton, Darwin, Rutherford, Einstein and the great Earth scientists
of this century who fathomed the depths of lost time and discovered
the age of the Earth.
Written in an engaging, nontechnical style, this book will delight
and amaze all who encounter it."
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