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Berman, Bob
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Light -- History.
Optics -- History.
Radiation -- History.
Light -- Philosophy.
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Berman, Bob
Light -- History.
Optics -- History.
Radiation -- History.
Light -- Philosophy.
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Zapped : from infrared to x-rays, the curious history of invisible light / Bob Berman.
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Berman, Bob
Little, Brown and Company, c2017.
Call #:
535
.09
B516z
Subjects
Light -- History.
Optics -- History.
Radiation -- History.
Light -- Philosophy.
ISBN:
9780316311304 (hc)
0316311308 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
vi, 261 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Light fantastic -- Now you see it, now you don't -- The green planet and the red heat -- Hot rays -- Ultraviolet brings the blues -- Danger beyond the violet -- Energy rhythms -- The exploding sun -- No soap -- Turning on and tuning in -- The speed that destroyed space and time -- Microwaves everywhere -- The man with the x-ray vision -- R©œntgen rays for everyone -- What's in your basement? -- The atomic quartet -- Gamma rays: the impossible light -- Cell-phone radiation -- Cosmic rays -- Beams from the universe's birth -- Energy from our minds -- Ray guns -- The next frontier: zero-point and dark energies -- Total solar eclipse: when the rays stop -- ET's may be broadcasting, but what's their number? -- Does light have a bright future?
Summary:
"Zapped tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the nineteenth century to their central role in modern life"--From publisher.
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