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With a Foreword by Steven WeinbergIn 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 ten, until again the second is
reached at the end of the book.At each time scale, interesting
natural phenomena occur, spread over all scientific disciplines:
orbital and rotation periods of planets and stars, decay times of
elementary particles and atoms, biological rhythms and evolution
processes, but also the different geological time scales. remove
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