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'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history, from the first solstice markers at Newgrange to quartz crystal oscillating in your watch today. Science underpins time: measuring the movement of Sun, Earth and Moon, and unlocking the mysteries of quantum mechanics and relativity theory – the key to ultra-precise atomic clocks. Yet time is also socially decided: the Gregorian calendar we use today came out of fraught politics, while the ancient Maya used sophisticated astronomical observations to produce a calendar system unlike any other. In his quirky and accessible style, Chad Orzel reveals the wondrous physics that makes time something we can set, measure and know. Title 6 Dedication 7 Contents 8 Introduction: A Clock Is a Thing That Ticks 10 1 Sunrise 18 2 The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars 36 3 “Give Us Our Eleven Days!” 51 4 The Apocalypse That Wasn’t 62 5 Drips and Drops 76 6 Ticks and Tocks 93 7 Heavenly Wanderers 116 8 Celestial Clockwork 137 9 To the Moon … 153 10 Watch This 166 11 Do

Author

Chad Orzel

Publisher

Oneworld Publications

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780861543212

Subjects

Science, Technology, History