Time without a beginning? -- On the great book of Moses -- Genesis as viewed through the prism of natural philosophy -- Nature's admirable medals -- The march of the comets -- Heroic age, relative time -- The long history of two barons -- The elasticity of time -- The Pandora's box of physics -- The Sun, the Earth, radioactivity-- and Kelvin's death -- The long quest of Arthur Holmes -- From the atomic bomb to the age of the Earth -- Appendix. Mathematical complements
Notes
Originally published: 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-453) and index
Notes
Translation of: L'âge du monde : à la découverte de 'immensité du temps
