Light years and time travel : an exploration of mankind's enduring fascination with light / Brian Clegg.

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Clegg, Brian

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : J. Wiley, c2001.Description: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

0471211826
9780471211822

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DDC classification:

535 21 CLE

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Contents:

At the speed of light -- The philosophers -- Out of the darkness -- Engines of light -- Seeing further -- Light's anatomy -- Death of the ether -- Fearful symmetry -- QED -- Tyger! Tyger!

Summary: Here is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? Light Years explores our understanding of light from the spiritual interpretations of the Neolithic worshippers at Stonehenge, the Ancient Egyptians and the Mayans, through our first scientific attempts to understand light, and up to the present day. It looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory - Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, and Feynman - and traces the evolution of light driven-devices from the camera to the laser.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Sciences	Non-fiction	535 CLE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Gifted / Donated Books		29083

Originally published: Great Britain : J. Piatkus, 2001.

At the speed of light --
The philosophers --

Out of the darkness --

Engines of light --

Seeing further --

Light's anatomy --

Death of the ether --

Fearful symmetry --

QED --

Tyger! Tyger!

Here is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? Light Years explores our understanding of light from the spiritual interpretations of the Neolithic worshippers at Stonehenge, the Ancient Egyptians and the Mayans, through our first scientific attempts to understand light, and up to the present day. It looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory - Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, and Feynman - and traces the evolution of light driven-devices from the camera to the laser.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-305) and index.

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