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	Time Scales
		Although the term GMT was not explicitly used, the standard time for legal purposes in the United States specified by 15USC261 (the Calder Act) was defined to be based on the mean astronomical time of meridians spaced at 15-degree intervals west of Greenwich; i.e., GMT.
		Although the term GMT was not explicitly used, the standard time for legal purposes in the United States specified by 15USC261 was clarified and reaffirmed to be based on the mean solar time of meridians spaced at 15-degree intervals west of Greenwich; i.e., GMT.
		This time scale is an effort to ascertain corrections to the values of TAI based on retrospective studies of the behavior of the clocks which have contributed to TAI.
	www.ucolick.org /~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html (12423 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Brief History of Time: Livres en anglais: S.W. Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Brief History of Time has rightly been hailed as the publishing sensation of the past decade and is surely destined to become one of the greatest classics of science writing.
		Time is of the essence, 21 décembre 2005
		Hawking begins by exploring the large scale structure of the universe (time being part of the `fabric' of the universe, in spacetime), the connections of space and time as a relatively new concept in thinking of the universe, and the way the universe `acts' (cosmological dynamics).
	www.amazon.fr /Brief-History-Time-S-W-Hawking/dp/0593043162 (798 words)

	A Brief History of Time
		Brief History of Time begins with a striking image and a wonderful true story: An elderly lady attended a public lecture given by an astrophysicist on how the Earth goes around the Sun and how the Sun circles about with countless other stars in our galaxy the Milky Way.
		The beginning of time is the South Pole, while the present is a circle around the Earth at the northernmost latitude.
		Jupiter Scientific Publishing recommends A Brief History of Time to those who are interested in physics, cosmology, natural philosophy or the history of science and who have already acquired some knowledge of science either through study or by the reading of other books.
	www.jupiterscientific.org /review/bht.html (2087 words)

	A (Really) Brief History of Time
		She is also curator of "The Story of Time" at the National Maritime Museum -- an exhibit that explores how societies relate to time.
		Time affects your body, your health, the rhythms of your life.
		As a high-profile expert on the history of time, Kristen Lippincott, the curator of the "Story of Time" exhibit at the National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, England, hears a lot about the unique properties of Internet time.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/35/greenwich.html (964 words)

	A Brief History of Time revisited - book, movie Omni - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The film is called A Brief History of Time and is based on Stephen Hawking's best-selling introduction to cosmological concepts, as well as on elements of Hawking's own life.
		The Brief History film is made for a wide audience, and the director wisely takes his time getting into the science.
		While some time is naturally spent on Hawking's battle with a debilitating disease, an equal or even greater amount of time is spent looking at other aspects of his life: his childhood, school days, marriage.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n12_v14/ai_12516600 (795 words)

	A Brief History of Time (in Indiana)
		When the bill reaches the House, there is mayhem on the floor as legislators representing cities (which generally favor fast time) battle legislators from agricultural areas (where changing the clock at all is considered "unnatural" and "unhealthy for cows").
		Whitcomb says the bill would make Indiana's times conflict with those of surrounding states, but he is accused of siding with the television broadcast lobby (which wants program schedules to conform to those on the East Coast).
		Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels made DST part of his economic plan, arguing that "Indiana Time" was bad for the state's economy because businesses outside of the state couldn't keep track of what time it was in Indiana.
	www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/history/time (1126 words)

	A Brief History of Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Professor Stephen Hawking and first published in 1988.
		It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for a record breaking 237 weeks.
		September of 2005 saw the release of A Briefer History of Time (a collaboration with Leonard Mlodinow), which is an abridged version of the original book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time (616 words)

	The Stephen Hawking Page - A Brief History of Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now, for the first time, he has written a popular work exploring the outer limits of our knowledge of astrophysics and the nature of time and the universe.
		The result is a truly enlightening book: a classic introduction to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos, and a unique opportunity to experience the intellect of one of the most imaginative, influential thinkers of our age.
		And last, he expores the worldwide effort to combin the two into a single quantum theory of gravity, the unified theory, which should resolve all the mysteries left unsolved -- and he tells why he believes that momentous discovery is not far off.
	www.psyclops.com /hawking/brief_history.html (442 words)

	History of Time
		Certainly the Egyptians were interested in telling time, using Obelisks as early as 3500 BCE to divide up the day into parts.
		Needless to say, the Chinese were building really sophisticated time telling devices far sooner and for far longer than we were in the west.
		In 1967, those who needed to agreed that a second should be defined as exactly 9,192,631,770 cycles of the cesium atom's resonant frequency, replacing the old second that was defined in terms of the Earth's motions.
	www.kevinhoffberg.com /Archive/Time.htm (2246 words)

	A Brief Look at a Brief History of Time
		The thrust of Hawking's philosophizing in A Brief History of Time is to demean the role of God in the affairs of the universe and to elevate the role of man. Spearheading this thrust is Carl Sagan, who foreshadows the theme in his introduction to the book.
		At the time of the formulation of the singularity theorems, general relativity was verified only to one or two decimal places.
		The uniformity, homogeneity, and mass density of the universe all must be precisely valued for human life to be possible at any time in the history of the universe.
	www.hope-of-israel.org /brief.htm (2746 words)

	A Brief History of Time - Stephen W. Hawking
		Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions the theory survives, and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory.
		The number of fl holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse.
		The idea that space and time may form a closed surface without boundary also has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe.
	www.generationterrorists.com /quotes/abhotswh.html (4001 words)

	Brief History of Time
		I think that was mostly because by the time I finally got round to reading it, i'd already read several other books covering the same sort of stuff so it ended up coming across to me as, well, basic and boring.
		It's a book written for the 'nonscientist' to give an introduction to the modern thoeries of physics, I said that it's written for the layman cause it doesn't require years of hard maths and physics to understand the point of each chapter and what he is trying to explain in the book.
		brief history of time is for the laymen......i dont know if ur a laymen or not..
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=106557 (773 words)

	TIME 100: Person of the Century - A Brief History of Relativity
		In that 1905 paper, Einstein pointed out that because you could not detect whether or not you were moving through the ether, the whole notion of an ether was redundant.
		This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure.
		TIME's 1963 Man of the Year led a mass struggle for racial equality that doomed segregation and changed America forever
	www.time.com /time/time100/poc/magazine/a_brief_history_of_rela6a.html (676 words)

	A Brief History of Time - Stephen W. Hawking (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.
		This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun, but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions.
		Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
	www.generationterrorists.com.cob-web.org:8888 /quotes/abhotswh.html (4004 words)

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		In A Brief History of Time, we are not only brought to learn of the advancements that Hawking has been behind, but also to learn of what a life he has led.
		Gordon Berry remembers him partying and having a great time with Hawking in Oxford, but can only now sit impressed with the genius that he has proven to be.
		A Brief History of Time is only half his story -- filling in the rest with his theories, which range from the questions of time in space to the obscurity of a fl hole.
	www.epinions.com /content_23896886916 (804 words)

	A Brief History of Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Someone recently remarked in my presence that A Brief History of Time is a book that many people have on their shelves, but few have read.
		A Brief History of Time is exactly that, in the manner that theoretical physicists view time.
		A Brief History of Time is informative, though less so than it might have been.
	www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/nonfiction/brief.history.time.html (412 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes: Books: S.W. Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Illustrated Brief History of Time by S.W. Hawking
		For one thing, the concepts that are discussed are highly arcane and buried so deep in extra-sensory thought that it is difficult for many to get any kind of meaningful empirical handle on them; and for another, every "intelligent layman" who reads the book feels duty-bound to get some kind of edification from it.
		Time is of the essence, 20 Dec 2005
	www.amazon.co.uk /Brief-History-Time-Black-Holes/dp/0553175211 (1881 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes: Livres en anglais: Stephen W. Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, fl holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory.
		Time is of the essence, 20 décembre 2005
		In his book, the author in his wheelchair, describes in an easy way the recent theories explaining the way the universe was born and the way it is growing.
	www.amazon.fr /Brief-History-Time-Black-Holes/dp/0553346148 (1026 words)

	NOVA Online \| The Missing Link \| A Brief History of Life \| PBS
		The geological time scale, established by scientists in the mid-19th century and agreed upon internationally, breaks down the eternity of our planet's history into more manageable units than years.
		The scale functions as a massive calendar, dividing the history of life into eras, periods, and epochs based on fossil evidence.
		In this feature, explore the history of life on Earth as we know it today, from the earliest bacteria to the first modern humans.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/link/history.html (282 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Illustrated Brief History of Time: Books: S.W. Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this revised, expanded and illustrated edition of "A Brief History of Time", Stephen Hawking includes the most recent developments in the field of cosmology, many of which were forecast by himself.
		Hawking has taken everything from the early history of thinking about the universe, its laws and composition, to the latest developments on fl holes and string theory and placed it in a remarkably lucid set of explanations that detail the concepts behind all the mathematics that is so intimidating to most.
		While this was fine the first couple of times it becomes a little irritating in place of the standard 1,000,000...
	www.amazon.co.uk /Illustrated-Brief-History-Time/dp/0593040597 (1036 words)

	A Brief History of Time - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		A Brief History of Time, motion-picture documentary about British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, whose theories changed the modern...
		Hawking, Stephen William : A Brief History of Time
		Timelines seek to educate about history by using a linear visual display to represent the passing of time.
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	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Hawking's briefer history of time
		Stephen Hawking, the British physicist who wrote the international bestseller, A Brief History of Time, is to write a shorter, simpler version.
		The new book is likely to be called A Brief History of Time for Children or for Young Adults.
		The 1988 book, which has sold more than nine million copies and was turned into a television series, was in the Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list for more than four years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1599719.stm (282 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Brief History of Time: the Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition: Books: Stephen Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking
		He shows how the universe can be considered like the earth, with time beginning at the North Pole and ending at the "big crunch" at the South Pole.
		At times the reader thinks he is a proponent of a universe created by God and at others, the reader begins to doubt the author's suggestion of that.
	www.amazon.ca /Brief-History-Time-Expanded-Anniversary/dp/0553380168 (1483 words)

	A brief history of time preservation - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A brief history of time preservation - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
		People like to believe the details of their lives are going to matter in the future, says Paul Messier, board member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works in Northwest.
		He has been consulted for various time capsules about what paper and photographic materials are more likely to last.
	washingtontimes.com /metro/20060419-095408-6296r.htm (544 words)

	Amazon.com: A Brief History of Time: Books: Stephen Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
		A point he brings to attention is that it had been possible for the philosophers of ancient times to master practically all the knowledge of academia.
		Enter "A Brief History of Time." This book helps fill in that gap between an average person's understanding and the highly specialized scientists' knowledge.
	www.amazon.com /Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168 (2170 words)

	Briefer History of Time
		Not surprisingly, his world famous Brief History of Time has in recent times attracted at least one humorous derivative, namely a book by astronomer and educator Eric Schulman entitled A Briefer History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Big Mac (1999, ISBN: 07167 3389 7),
		This gave rise to The Universal History Translation Project, which has involved the translation of those 200 Words (or Less) into more than 30 languages.
		A Briefer History of Time is itself based on the 200-word history.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage20/Briefer-History-of-Time.html (266 words)

	Brief History of Time Book Review
		If you are looking for a good explanation why most scientists believe in the Big Bang this is your book.
		In addition, Hawking describes his no boundary proposal which attempts to do away with an absolute singularity in the beginning of time which reduces the role of God as the immediate cause of the universe.
		This book is very good and a must read if you are interested in origins.
	www.newcreationism.org /BriefHistory.html (198 words)

	A Brief History of Time (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Plot Outline: A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, is one of the great minds of all time.
		The blending of life and theories is seamless and thoroughly entertaining.
		I was particularly moved at how well they humanize this genius and omniscient man. Tho physically powerless, Hawking's greatness and shear brilliance is encapsulated into a real live human being that we are allowed to laugh at and aw over at the same time.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0103882 (349 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay - VHS: A Brief History of Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An exhilarating journey through time and the universe with professor Stephen Hawking, the most renowned scientist since Albert Einstein.
		Hawking's book, "A Brief History of Time", was on the bestseller lists for 100 weeks.
		According to Variety, the film allegedly was supported by Steven Spielberg and his production company Amblin Entertainment when Morris first began work on it, but neither Spielberg nor Amblin appear in the final credits.
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