Nuclear Clocks

Nuclear Clocks

Nuclear Clocks - RevisedHow old is a rock? How old is man? How old is the earth?...
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Author: Faul, Henry,1920-1981
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Nuclear Clocks

Nuclear Clocks

CHF 12.13 CHF 6.06

Nuclear Clocks

CHF 12.13 CHF 6.06
Author: Faul, Henry,1920-1981
Format: eBook
Language: English

Nuclear Clocks - Revised

How old is a rock? How old is man? How old is the earth? It would be difficult to find a reason why anyone would really have to know the answers to these questions, yet they have been asked over and over again since the dawn of human society. The records of every civilization disclose attempts to delve into the past beyond the memory of the oldest man, beyond recorded history, beyond earliest legend. Curiosity about the remote past may be very ancient, but the only reliable method of measuring very long intervals of time is new. The possibility of doing so became apparent only after the discovery of RADIOACTIVITY[1] in 1896 by Henri Becquerel, when Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 recognized that some atoms are radioactive and change by themselves into other atoms at regular and constant rates. 2 If something gradually transforms itself into something else, if this transformation goes on at a known pace, and if all the products of the activity are preserved in some kind of a CLOSED SYSTEM, then it is theoretically possible to calculate the time that has elapsed since the process started. The theory was clear for years; the only problem was how to satisfy all those ifs. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49070
Author: Faul, Henry
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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