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Light
Years [and Time Travel]
UK VERSION NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!
Currently sold out in the US - please use the Amazon.co.uk links - shipping from the UK only costs a few dollars more. Light is at the very heart of our existence.
Without a dancing web of photons knitting atoms together, there would be
no matter, no universe. Without light-driven photosynthesis producing
plant-life and oxygen there would be nothing to breathe, nothing to eat. According to Einstein nothing can travel
faster than the speed of light. Of all the mind-bending theories in modern
physics, that, at least, seemed a rule that the universe would abide by.
Yet in 1994 at the University of Cologne, Professor Günter Nimtz sent a
recording of Mozart’s 40th Symphony through a physical barrier at four
times the speed of light. Yet again, light had confounded those who had
sought to understand it. Light Years is the ultimate odyssey into the heart of the most beautiful and most startling phenomenon in all of nature – light.
A fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It brings together all aspects of light in an unusual and compelling way. - Sir Patrick Moore, CBE This is a fascinating book which illuminates and entertains. - Sir Clive Sinclair As Brian Clegg's very readable account makes clear, light is at the very heart of the history of ideas and the evolution of science. Compelling reading. - Simon Patterson - artist and Turner Prize nominee Light's properties often seem mysterious to the point of being unfathomable. Yet in this extraordinary book Brian Clegg manages to explain them through the lives of those so fixated with light that they have shaped our perception of it... Clegg's accessible writing style manages to encapsulate the lives of light's disciples with humorous and interesting anecdotes... Clegg also provides real scientific insight into how light behaves. He explains complex theories through lucid metaphors, without resorting to the elaborate diagrams so beloved of some popular science writers...Clegg indulges in future gazing, too, the results of which are quite awesome... - From a review in New Scientist, the top UK science magazine, by Karen Peploe This immensely likeable work of pop science traces "man's enduring fascination with light", from Aristotle's plans for a death ray (burning enemy ships with a giant array of mirrors) through to a recent experiment that seems to have sent Mozart's 40th Symphony faster than light, and thus back through time. Clegg is very good at explaining the bizarre properties of light... - From a review in The Guardian newspaper, by Steven Poole Now for a "lighter" tale: Brian Clegg's wonderful Light Years. He covers not only the science but also the art of light, some of it surprisingly early. In 1734, Louis Bertrand Castel played what must have been the first light and music concert. Keys on his clavichord shifted coloured tapes in front of candles to produce light patterns. "An extraordinary book", said our reviewer. From a review in the New in Paperback section of New Scientist.
Light Years published
in the UK by Piatkus Publishing, ISBN
07499-2197-8 in June 2001
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