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This book covers contemporary and historical perceptions of time from scientific and intuitive vantages. Ancient and modern clocks, Augustinian ideas, the deterministic Newtonian universe, biological clocks, deep time, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and relativity contribute to the exploration of time using established technologies and science.

This book covers contemporary and historical perceptions of time from scientific and intuitive vantages. Ancient and modern clocks, Augustinian ideas, the deterministic Newtonian universe, biological clocks, deep time, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and relativity contribute to the exploration of time using established technologies and science.

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This book reviews the current status of efforts to predict properties of electrochemical interfaces. Recent work requires large-scale computation in most cases, but the chapters in this volume discuss theoretical inputs and approaches as well as computational techniques. The book emphasizes efforts which are based on first principles starting with the Schroedinger equation, but which draw conclusions relevant to electrochemical phenomena on ti...

Presents a 'reductionist' view of statistical mechanics, suitable for a one year graduate course.

What does existing scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, meteorology and biology tell us about the likelihood of extraterrestrial life and civilizations? And what does the fact that there is currently no credible scientific evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial biospheres or civilizations teach  us? This book reviews the various scientific issues that arise in considering the question of how common extraterrestrial life is ...

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