Time in Powers of Ten

With a Foreword by Steven Weinberg
In this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales.
In the tradition of the bestseller Powers of Ten, the authors zoom in and out in time, each step with a factor of ten. Starting from one second, time scales are enlarged until processes are reached that take much longer than the age of the universe. After the largest possible eternities, the reader is treated to the shortest and fastest phenomena known. Then the authors increase with powers of ten, until again the second is reached at the end of the book.
At each time scale, interesting natural phenomena occur, spread over all scientific disciplines: orbital and rotation periods of planets and stars, decay times of elementary particles and atoms, biological rhythms and evolution processes, but also the different geological time scales.
Contents:Part I:10⁰ Seconds = 1 Second10¹ Seconds = 10 Seconds10² Seconds = 100 Seconds = 1 Minute, 40 Seconds10³ Seconds = 1,000 Seconds = 16 Minutes, 40 Seconds10⁴ Seconds = 10,000 Seconds = 2.78 Hours10⁵ Seconds = 100,000 Seconds = 1.16 Days = 27.78 Hours10⁶ Seconds = 1,000,000 = 1 Million Seconds = 11.57 Days = 1.65 Weeks10^6.41 Seconds = 2,592,000 Seconds = 30 Days ≈ 1 Month10⁷ Seconds = 10 Million Seconds = 115.74 Days = 3.86 Months10⁸ Seconds = 100 Million Seconds = 3.17 Years10⁹ Seconds = 1 Billion Seconds = 31.7 Years10¹⁰ Seconds = 10 Billion Seconds = 317 Years10¹¹ Seconds = 100 Billion Seconds = 3,171 Years10¹² Seconds = 1 Trillion Seconds = 31,710 Years10¹³ Seconds = 10 Trillion Seconds = 317,098 Years10¹⁴ Seconds = 100 Trillion Seconds = 3.17 Million Years10¹⁵ Seconds = 1 Quadrillion Seconds = 31.7 Million Years10¹⁶ Seconds = 10 Quadrillion Seconds = 317 Million Years10¹⁷ Seconds = 100 Quadrillion Seconds = 3.17 Billion Years10¹⁸ Seconds = 1 Quintillion Seconds = 31.7 Billion years: The Large Timescales10²¹ seconds = 1 Sextillion Seconds = 3.17 × 10¹³ Years: The Large Timescales10²⁸ Seconds = 3.17 × 10²⁰ Years: The Large Timescales10³² Seconds: To Infinity and Beyond: The Dark EternitiesPart II:10^-44 to 10^-26 Seconds: Small Timescales10^-25 Seconds10^-24 Seconds = 1 Yoctosecond10^-23 Seconds = 10 Yoctoseconds10^-22 Seconds = 100 Yoctoseconds10^-21 Seconds = 1 Zeptosecond10^-20 Seconds = 10 Zeptoseconds10^-19 Seconds = 100 Zeptoseconds10^-18 Seconds = 1 Attosecond10^-17 Seconds = 10 Attoseconds10^-16 Seconds = 100 Attoseconds10^-15 Seconds = 1 Femtosecond10^-14 Seconds = 10 Femtoseconds10^-13 Seconds = 100 Femtoseconds10^-12 Seconds = 1 Picosecond10^-11 Seconds = 10 Picoseconds10^-10 Seconds = 100 Picoseconds10^-9 Seconds = 1 Nanosecond10^-8 Seconds = 10 Nanoseconds10^-7 Seconds = 100 Nanoseconds10^-6 Seconds = 1 Microsecond10^-5 Seconds = 10 Microseconds10^-4 Seconds = 100 Microseconds = 0.0001 Seconds10^-3 Seconds = 1 Millisecond = 0.001 Seconds10^-2 Seconds = 10 Milliseconds = 0.01 Seconds10^-1 Seconds = 100 Milliseconds = 0.1 Seconds10⁰ Seconds = 1 Second
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