TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helfand,D.J.
TI  - The universal timekeepers: reconstructing history atom by atom 
SN  - 9780231558686
AV  - QB466.C67 H45 2023eb
U1  - 523.1 23/eng/20230609
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Cosmochronology
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Atoms
KW  - Cosmochronologie
KW  - Cosmologie
KW  - Atomes
KW  - cosmology
KW  - aat
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Calling the witnesses to history -- 2. Conceptualizing the atom: from philosophy to science -- 3. The atom: a utilitarian view -- 4. The elements: our complete set of blocks -- 5. Isotopes: elemental flavors -- 6. Radioactivity: the imperturbable clock -- 7. Stolen and forged: forensic art history -- 8. The carbon clock: pinning down dates -- 9. History without words: lime and lead and poop -- 10. You are what you eat -- 11. Paleoclimate: taking the Earth's temperature long ago; 12. The eeath of the dinosaurs: an atomic view -- 13. Evolution: from meteorites to cyanobacteria -- 14. What's up in the air? Earth's evolving atmosphere -- 15. Our sun's birthday: the solar system in formation -- 16. Stardust creation: building the building blocks -- 17. In the beginning -- Epilogue: A quark's tale -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index
N2  - David J. Helfand reconstructs the history of the universe-back to its first microsecond 13.8 billion years ago-with the help of atoms
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