Screen LibraryThe age of everything：how science explores the past
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The University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 249 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780226322926 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226322920 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | P533 |
| CLC: | P533 |
| Call Number: | P533/H455 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- The calendars of the classic Maya -- Precession, polaris, and the age of the pyramids -- The physics of carbon-14 -- Calibrating carbon-14 dates and the history of the air -- Carbon-14 and the peopling of the new world -- Potassium, argon, DNA, and walking upright -- Molecular dating and the many different types of mammals -- Meteorites and the age of the solar system -- Colors, brightness, and the age of stars -- Distances, redshifts, and the age of the universe -- Parameterizing the age of the universe. |