Lightspeed: The Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light

ISBN-13: 9780198841968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

John C. H. Spence

Opis

This book tells the story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventures - how it came to be understood that light travels at a finite speed, so that when we look up at the stars we are looking back in time. From the ancient Greeks measuring the distance to the sun, to today's satellite navigation, the book offers a gripping historical journey.

Recenzje

The richly illustrated study and reference book Lightspeed tells in a pleasant and fascinating way the course of history in the search for the natural presence of light and its physical properties. Jan M. Broeders, Optische Fenomenen [translated]

O autorze

John C. H. Spence FRS is Snell Professor of Physics at Arizona State University, where he teaches condensed matter physics with research in biophysics. He is currently Director of Science for the National Science Foundation's eight-campus "BioXFEL" consortium. This is devoted to applications of the recently invented hard x-ray free-electron laser to structural biology, providing movies of molecular machines at work with femtosecond time resolution. John is the author of texts on electron microscopy, and a keen musician, pilot and sailor.