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The Age of Everything (Paperback)
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The Age of Everything (Paperback)
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Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences,
Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has
ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of
everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years
ago to the origin of the universe nearly fourteen billion years
ago.
Hedman details, for example, how interdisciplinary studies of the
Great Pyramids of Egypt can determine exactly when and how these
incredible structures were built. He shows how the remains of
humble trees can illuminate how the surface of the sun has changed
over the past ten millennia. And he also explores how the origins
of the earth, solar system, and universe are being discerned with
help from rocks that fall from the sky, the light from distant
stars, and even the static seen on television sets.
Covering a wide range of time scales, from the Big Bang to human
history, "The Age of Everything" is a provocative and far-ranging
look at how science has determined the age of everything from
modern mammals to the oldest stars, and will be indispensable for
all armchair time travelers.
"We are used to being told confidently of an enormous, measurable
past: that some collection of dusty bones is tens of thousands of
years old, or that astronomical bodies have an age of some
billions. But how exactly do scientists come to know these things?
That is the subject of this quite fascinating book. . . . As told
by Hedman, an astronomer, each story is a marvel of compressed
exegesis that takes into account some of the most modern and
intriguing hypotheses."--Steven Poole, "Guardian """ "Hedman is
worth reading because he is careful to present both the power and
peril of trying to extract precise chronological data. These are
all very active areas of study, and as you read Hedman you begin to
see how researchers have to be both very careful and incredibly
audacious, and how much of our understanding of ourselves--through
history, through paleontology, through astronomy--depends on
determining the age of everything."--Anthony Doerr, "Boston""
Globe"
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