Lightspeed : the ghostly aether and the race to measure the speed of light / John C.H. Spence.
| Author/creator | Spence, John C. H. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Early ideas -- Ole Roemer, who started it all -- Measuring the cosmos : parallax and the transit of Venus -- James Bradley, sailing on the Thames -- The nineteenth century : light beams across the rooftops of Paris -- Faraday and Maxwell : the grand synthesis -- Albert Michelson and the aether wind -- Einstein : the great clarification -- Radio and telecommunications : spacecraft -- Faster-than-light schemes : quantum reality. |
| Abstract | This book tells the human story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventure--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 an absolute frame of reference in the universe led so improbably to Einstien's famous equation E=mc². -- Book jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019937510 |
| ISBN | 0198841965 hardback |
| ISBN | 9780198841968 hardback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | QC407 .S64 2020 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |