The age of everything : how science explores the past / / Matthew Hedman.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 249 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.