UID:
almahu_9947357808802882
Format:
xviii, 212 p. :
,
ill. (some col.), col. maps.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2014. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Edition:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
Available to subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9789814494922
Content:
With a Foreword by Steven Weinberg. 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 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.
Note:
"Translated by Saskia Eisberg-'t Hooft from the original Dutch edition Tijd in Machten van tien - Natuurverschijnselen en hun tijdschalen."--T.p. verso.
,
ch. 1. 10[0] seconds = 1 second -- ch. 2. 10[1] seconds = 10 seconds -- ch. 3. 10[2] seconds = 100 seconds = 1 minute, 40 seconds -- ch. 4. 10[3] seconds = 1,000 seconds = 16 minutes, 40 seconds -- ch. 5. 10[4] seconds = 10,000 seconds = 2.78 hours -- ch. 6. 10[5] seconds = 100,000 seconds = 1.16 days = 27.78 hours -- ch. 7. 10[6] seconds = 1,000,000 = 1 million seconds = 11.57 days = 1.65 weeks -- ch. 8. 10[6.41] seconds = 2,592,000 seconds = 30 days [symbol] 1 month -- ch. 9. 10[7] seconds = 10 million seconds = 115.74 days = 3.86 months -- ch. 10. 10[8] seconds = 100 million seconds = 3.17 years -- ch. 11. 10[9] seconds = 1 billion seconds = 31.7 years -- ch. 12. 10[10] seconds = 10 billion seconds = 317 years -- ch. 13. 10[11] seconds = 100 billion seconds = 3,171 years -- ch. 14. 10[12] seconds = 1 trillion seconds = 31,710 years -- ch. 15. 10[13] seconds = 10 trillion seconds = 317,098 years -- ch. 16. 10[14] seconds = 100 trillion seconds = 3.17 million years -- ch. 17. 10[15] seconds = 1 quadrillion seconds = 31.7 million years -- ch. 18. 10[16] seconds = 10 quadrillion seconds = 317 million years -- ch. 19. 10[17] seconds = 100 quadrillion seconds = 3.17 billion years -- ch. 20. 10[18] seconds = 1 quintillion seconds = 31.7 billion years: The large timescales. 10[21] seconds = 1 sextillion seconds = 3.17 x 10[13] years: The large timescales. 10[28] seconds = 3.17 x 10[20] years: The large timescales -- ch. 21. 10[32] seconds: to infinity and beyond: The dark eternities -- ch. 22. 10[-44] to 10[-26] seconds: small timescales -- ch. 23. 10[-25] seconds -- ch. 24. 10[-24] seconds = 1 yoctosecond -- ch. 25. 10[-23] seconds = 10 yoctoseconds -- ch. 26. 10[-22] seconds = 100 yoctoseconds -- ch. 27. 10[-21] seconds = 1 zeptosecond -- ch. 28. 10[-20] seconds = 10 zeptoseconds -- ch. 29. 10[-19] seconds = 100 zeptoseconds -- ch. 30. 10[-18] = 1 attosecond -- ch. 31. 10[-17] seconds = 10 attoseconds -- ch. 32. 10[-16] = 100 attoseconds -- ch. 33. 10[-15] seconds = 1 femtosecond -- ch. 34. 10[-14] seconds = 10 femtoseconds -- ch. 35. 10[-13] seconds = 100 femtoseconds -- ch. 36. 10[-12] seconds = 1 picosecond -- ch. 37. 10[-11] seconds = 10 picoseconds -- ch. 38. 10[-10] seconds = 100 picoseconds -- ch. 39. 10[-9] seconds = 1 nanosecond -- ch. 40. 10[-8] seconds = 10 nanoseconds -- ch. 41. 10[-7] seconds = 100 nanoseconds -- ch. 42. 10[-6] seconds = 1 microsecond -- ch. 43. 10[-5] seconds = 10 microseconds -- ch. 44. 10[-4] seconds = 100 microseconds = 0.0001 seconds -- ch. 45. 10[-3] seconds = 1 millisecond = 0.001 seconds -- ch. 46. 10[-2] seconds = 10 milliseconds = 0.01 seconds -- ch. 47. 10[-1] seconds = 100 milliseconds = 0.1 seconds -- ch. 48. 10[0] seconds = 1 second.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789814489812
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789814489805
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8786#t=toc
