The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780226322926 (0226322920)
ASIN: 0226322920
Publish date: 2007-11-01
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
The Age of Everything really is about, well, how scientists determine the age of everything, from the pyramids to the universe. Therefore about half the book is about dating methods, principally those using the half lives of unstable radioactive elements, not only the famous carbon 14 dating, but a...