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In Search of Lost Time (Hardcover)
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In Search of Lost Time (Hardcover)
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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 Schr dingers 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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