Ebook: Zapped: from infrared to X-rays, the curious history of invisible light
Author: Berman Bob
- Tags: Light, Light--History, Light--Philosophy, Optics, Optics--History, Radiation, Radiation--History, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, Spectrum analysis, Spectrum analysis--History, History, Spectrum analysis -- History, Light -- History, Radiation -- History, Optics -- History, Light -- Philosophy
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Little
- City: New York
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
"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"--Provided by publisher.;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 -- Röntgen 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 -- ETs may be broadcasting, but what's their number? -- Does light have a bright future?
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