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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Early Ideas 2: Ole Roemer, Who Started It All 3: Measuring the Cosmos. Parallax and the Transit of Venus 4: James Bradley, Sailing On the Thames. The Best Experiment 5: The 19th Century. Light Beams Across the Rooftops of Paris 6: Faraday and Maxwell - The Grand Synthesis 7: Albert Michelson and the Aether Wind 8: Einstein: The Great Clarification 9: Radio and Telecommunications. Spacecraft 10: Faster-Than Light Schemes. Quantum Reality
1: Early Ideas 2: Ole Roemer, Who Started It All 3: Measuring the Cosmos. Parallax and the Transit of Venus 4: James Bradley, Sailing On the Thames. The Best Experiment 5: The 19th Century. Light Beams Across the Rooftops of Paris 6: Faraday and Maxwell - The Grand Synthesis 7: Albert Michelson and the Aether Wind 8: Einstein: The Great Clarification 9: Radio and Telecommunications. Spacecraft 10: Faster-Than Light Schemes. Quantum Reality
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