Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/iLuLhU Time in Powers of Ten Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales By: Gerard 't Hooft; Stefan Vandoren Publisher: WSPC Print ISBN: 9789814489812, 9814489816 eText ISBN: 9789814494939, 9814494933 Pages: 232 Format: EPUB Available from $ 19.00 USD SKU 9789814494939 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. Contents: Part I: 100 Seconds = 1 Second 101 Seconds = 10 Seconds 102 Seconds = 100 Seconds = 1 Minute, 40 Seconds 103 Seconds = 1,000 Seconds = 16 Minutes, 40 Seconds 104 Seconds = 10,000 Seconds = 2.78 Hours 105 Seconds = 100,000 Seconds = 1.16 Days = 27.78 Hours 106 Seconds = 1,000,000 = 1 Million Seconds = 11.57 Days = 1.65 Weeks 106.41 Seconds = 2,592,000 Seconds = 30 Days ≈ 1 Month 107 Seconds = 10 Million Seconds = 115.74 Days = 3.86 Months 108 Seconds = 100 Million Seconds = 3.17 Years 109 Seconds = 1 Billion Seconds = 31.7 Years --> Science enthusiasts and students.
