Skip to content

Light Years An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0230527256

ISBN-13: 9780230527256

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Brian Clegg

List price: $27.99
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
Rent eBooks
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light?Light Yearsis an engaging survey of everything we know of the universe's most enigmatic phenomenon and the remarkable people who have been captivated by it.Light Yearslooks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory--Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell and Feynman--and traces the evolution of light-driven devices from the camera to the laser. nbsp; In this revised edition, leading popular science author Brian Clegg reveals how twenty-first century scientists have achieved the seemingly impossible in bringing light to a halt, and used the quantum properties of entangled light to produce…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Brian Clegg was a senior manager at British Airways before setting up the business creativity training company Creativity Unleashed Limited (www.cul.co.uk). He now divides his time between his work with large organisations, where his clients have included Sony And The BBC and writing books. Previous books Brian has written include Imagination Engineering andCapturing Customers' Hearts for FT Prentice Hall and A Brief History of Infinity and Before the Big Bang. Brian has also written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous magazines and contributed to radio and TV programmes.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Tangled Light
Tyger! Tyger!
Further reading