A Watchmaker's Romance with Time: The Life, Science and Love of Philipp Wagner (Amos Van Der Merwe)

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A Watchmaker's Romance with Time: The Life, Science and Love of Philipp Wagner

Amos Van Der Merwe
Published by Naledi (Published by), 2020
ISBN 10: 192851880X / ISBN 13: 9781928518808
One-hundred-million to 1 is an amazing ratio, bordering on an impossibility. Yet this number seems to be an integral part of the life of Philipp Wagner, the little boy from Austria whose father died in Buchenwald. Now a man in his later eighties, Philipp is still actively involved in a unique and very personal research project. Having trained as a watchmaker, he remains fascinated by the concept of Time. What is Time? When did it start? Are there time zones in the universe?
Some of his achievements are exceptional:
A tiny reduction gearbox, the size of an AA battery, capable of a reduction ratio of 100 000 000 : 1.
A timing mechanism capable of measuring a 100 000 000th of a second
And, amazingly, the chances of a private individual using time to document gravitational waves (the first man to do so?) must also be in the region of
100 000 000 : 1.
The Watchmakers Romance with Time looks back at the life of a remarkable man who lived through the horror of Nazi and Russian invasions, attended school for only eight years and once worked as a lifesaver at a swimming pool. After emigrating to South Africa, he established himself as a watchmaker, an innovator and an inventor. He must be one of the few self-funded private individuals whose experiments were launched into space.
Philipp Wagners life tells the story of overcoming odds and not accepting age as a barrier to romancing life, love and the quest for perfection.

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