Lightspeed
The Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light
This book tells the human 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. And how the search for a God-given absolute frame of reference in the universe led most improbably to Einstein's most famous equation E=mc2, which represents the energy that powers the stars and nuclear weapons. From the ancient Greeks measuring thesolar system, to the theory of relativity and satellite navigation, the book takes the reader on a gripping historical journey. We learn how Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-257916-4
- EAN: 9780192579164
- Produktnummer: 32782409
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 24'109 KB
- Abbildungen: 19 grayscale and 11 color line figures; 13 grayscale and 5 color halftone figures
Über den Autor
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 authorof texts on electron microscopy, and a keen musician, pilot and sailor.
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