EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Measured Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Perez-Hewitt
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2020-12-04
  • ISBN : 1662425694
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Measured Time written by Lynn Perez-Hewitt and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, a Japanese-American physicist is plucked from an internment camp to join a team of scientists at Los Alamos. Military intelligence needs his breakthrough work in transferring atoms. By September 1944, the war effort needs that breakthrough to work. As team leader, he volunteers to enter “the Trick.” He steps into the chamber and steps out into the hot sun of Southern Arizona—in 2008! Who can he trust? Will he be pulled back across time and return? His luck begins when he meets a retired high school science teacher shortly after his arrival. Together they connect pieces of time to form the fabric of friends, relatives, and colleagues that he needs. He quickly discovers that much has changed in the years he didn’t get to live, but science still holds many secrets. Nagging him are the last words he shared with one of his few friends at Los Alamos, a young Native American woman who worked in the Lodge. As he left to test his experiment, she smiled, squeezed his hand and said something about spirits. He wished he could recall what she had said. Can he find her as he looks for others from his past?

Book Groove  An Aesthetic of Measured Time

Download or read book Groove An Aesthetic of Measured Time written by Mark Abel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between music and time? How does musical rhythm express our social experience of time? In Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time, Mark Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organising rhythm: groove. He provides a historical account of its emergence around the turn of the twentieth century, and analyses the musical components which make it work. Tracing the influence of key philosophical arguments about the nature of time on musical aesthetics, Mark Abel draws on materialist interpretations of art and culture to challenge those, like Adorno, who criticise popular music’s metrical regularity. He concludes that groove does not simply reflect the temporality of contemporary society, but, by incorporating abstract time into its very structure, is capable of effecting a critique of it.

Book Measuring Time

Download or read book Measuring Time written by Masatoshi Kajita and published by Programme: Iop Expanding Physi. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book Masatoshi Kajita recounts the importance of precise measurements and their inherent uncertainty, before telling the story of humankind's efforts to define and measure time with increasing accuracy, culminating in the development of atomic clocks. These improvements in the accurate measurement of time and frequency have played a pivotal role in the development of modern science; including the confirmation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and the recent detection of gravity waves. Furthermore, such measurements afforded by atomic clocks and other mechanisms are being used to examine key questions about the very fundamentals of our universe, the possibility of symmetry violation and even testing the idea that there may be variation of the fundamental constants themselves over time.

Book The Clock Mirage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Mazur
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 0300252420
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book The Clock Mirage written by Joseph Mazur and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of clocks throughout the centuries—from the sandglass to the telomere—to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles? Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Readers learn that, as a consequence of time’s personal nature, a forty-eight-hour journey on the Space Shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule, that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages, and that time speeds up with fever and slows down when we feel in danger. With a narrative punctuated by personal stories of time’s effects on truck drivers, Olympic racers, prisoners, and clockmakers, Mazur’s journey is filled with fascinating insights into how our technologies, our bodies, and our attitudes can change our perceptions. Ultimately, time reveals itself as something that rides on the rhythms of our minds. The Clock Mirage presents an innovative perspective that will force us to rethink our relationship with time, and how best to use it.

Book About Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Rooney
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2022-08-09
  • ISBN : 1324021950
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book About Time written by David Rooney and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.

Book How We Measured Time

Download or read book How We Measured Time written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Will You Measure Your Life   Harvard Business Review Classics

Download or read book How Will You Measure Your Life Harvard Business Review Classics written by Clayton M. Christensen and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility  September 1990 to August 1991

Download or read book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility September 1990 to August 1991 written by Charles Edward Long and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility  September 1989 to August 1990

Download or read book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility September 1989 to August 1990 written by Charles Edward Long and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility  September 1991 to August 1992

Download or read book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility September 1991 to August 1992 written by Charles Edward Long and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility  June 1994 to August 1995

Download or read book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility June 1994 to August 1995 written by Charles E. Long and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility  September 1993 to May 1994

Download or read book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility September 1993 to May 1994 written by Charles E. Long and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility  September 1992 to August 1993

Download or read book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CERC Field Research Facility September 1992 to August 1993 written by Charles Edward Long and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CHL Field Research Facility  September 1995 to August 1996

Download or read book Index and Bulk Parameters for Frequency direction Spectra Measured at CHL Field Research Facility September 1995 to August 1996 written by Charles E. Long and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Michels (Journalist)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1032 pages

Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.

Book How Time is Measured

Download or read book How Time is Measured written by Peter Hood and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2ne ed. Oxford Univ. Press; 62 p. illus.