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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Do you know that black holes can affect time? That Stonehenge is a giant calendar? That the Pyramids are giant compasses? That an atomic reactor existed 2 billion years ago in equatorial Africa? Derek York fathoms these and many other mysteries of time and space in his new book In Search of Lost Time.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Preface.

-Acknowledgments.

-1- The Pyramids, Stonehenge and the Chinese Oracle Bones-Same Time Next Year.

-2- The Age of the Earth; Genesis Burden.

-3- The Age of Radioactivity.

-4- How Do You Date an Earth.

-5- Modern-day Adherents of Julius Africanus.

-6- A Carbon Time Machine.

-7- Children of Time.

-8- Dinosaurs, Meteorites and All that Jazz.

-9- Atomic "Reactor" Operated 2 Billion Years Ago.

-10- Gulliver's Travels and Martian Moons-Time for Kepler.

-11- Chaos and Time.

-12- Time in the Quantum World.

-13- Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

-14- Much Ado About Cannonballs (and Democracies); Last Exit to Pisa, Next Exit Black Holes.

-15- The Arrow of Time.

-16- Time Enough for Our Universe.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

According to what he himself admits, time and its measurement is the true obsession of the author of this little book. Derek York has spent many years in his life fascinated by this issue.

His work, a prodigy of divulgation and entertainment, takes us throughout half the world in search of the answers to such complicated questions as the dating of the great monuments of ancient times, the age of planet Earth or that of the Universe itself. It tells us as well what methods are used to measure time, the paradoxes that sprout from their manipulation in science and literature, etc.

This is a book aimed at all kinds of readers, written with meridian clarity. No doubt, it will open our eyes so as to make us understand much better a mundane yet essential concept.