Loving Faster Than Light

Author : Katy Price
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226680738
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loving Faster Than Light written by Katy Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an insightful examination of one of the essential problems of the history of science - how does elite, esoteric knowledge get read, used, modified, and owned by those outside the professional scientific community? Price focuses on one of the defining scientific ideas of the 20th century and skillfully demonstrates the many genres and styles through which it was adopted and changed.

Author : Nick Herbert
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452263174
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faster Than Light written by Nick Herbert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even though most physicists believe that the speed of light is as fast as anyone can go, Einstein's theory of special relativity does not rule out faster-than-light (FTL) travel. On the contrary, it seems to indicate that certain superluminal or FTL effects would permit us to re-experience the past: time travel would become a reality, not science fiction. Through this crack in the cosmic egg steps Herbert, a Stanford physicist and author of Quantum Reality, who summarizes clearly current speculation and theory about faster-than-light travel. Along with space warps, black holes and tachyons (hypothetical FTL particles), he looks at the so-called 'quantum connection'—an alleged force said to instantaneously link any two subatomic particles long after they have bumped into each other. Free of the woolgathering that tints much writing on the 'new physics', this brave, exciting book should send scientists back to their drawing boards; for the nonspecialist reader, it reveals a world much stranger than Star Trek."—Publishers Weekly "Original, challenging, and audacious."—San Diego Magazine

Author : Katy Price
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226680754
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loving Faster than Light written by Katy Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein’s theory quickly became a rich cultural resource with many uses beyond physical theory. Media coverage of relativity in Britain took on qualities of pastiche and parody, as serious attempts to evaluate Einstein’s theory jostled with jokes and satires linking relativity to everything from railway budgets to religion. The image of a befuddled newspaper reader attempting to explain Einstein’s theory to his companions became a set piece in the popular press. Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Blending literary analysis with insights from the history of science, Katy Price reveals how cultural meanings for Einstein’s relativity were negotiated in newspapers with differing political agendas, popular science magazines, pulp fiction adventure and romance stories, detective plots, and esoteric love poetry. Loving Faster than Light is an essential read for anyone interested in popular science, the intersection of science and literature, and the social and cultural history of physics.

Author : Swati Chavda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995874503
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love at the Speed of Light written by Swati Chavda and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love at the Speed of Light is a collection of poems for people who believe in love.Love is a paradoxical power that can explode in a Big Bang and evolve at the speed of light-or it can silently brighten the nights like stars burning for billions of years. There is a hypnotic magic in losing oneself in the thoughts of one's beloved. The verses in this book speak of this magic. They also explore the feelings of unrequited love, or how lovers sustain themselves when the world tears them apart, and about mistakes made in rash moments that the heartbroken lovers come to regret.This book explores a range of emotions felt by young lovers-from the all-consuming epic thrill of experiencing first love, to the heart-wrenching pain of separation and loss. There's also the bittersweet pain of long distance love, where the pangs of parting are offset by the anticipation of meeting again. If you've ever been in love, these poems will make your heart sing and take you on a journey to experience the highs and lows of love.

Author : Moses Fayngold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527622438
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light written by Moses Fayngold and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the theory of special relativity is often associated with the idea of traveling faster than light, this book shows that in all these cases subtle forces of nature conspire to prevent these motions being harnessed to send signals faster than the speed of light. The author tackles these topics both conceptually, with minimal or no mathematics, and quantitatively, making use of numerous illustrations to clarify the discussion. The result is a joy to read for both scientists familiar with the subject and laypeople wishing to understand something of special relativity.

Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147362
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faster Than Light written by Marilyn Nelson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities. Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. "Bivouac in a Storm" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, "marching in summer heat / thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees / haunted by whippings." Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, "Adventure-Monk!" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.

Author : Jamie Carie
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805448136
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's First Light written by Jamie Carie and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aristocrat goes undercover to survive the French Revolution, but his heart cannot be contained upon meeting a beautiful widow with whom he shares a tragic connection.

Author : Joao Magueijo
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144813403X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faster Than The Speed Of Light written by Joao Magueijo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that the speed of light is a constant - at 186,000 miles per second - is one of the few scientific facts that almost everyone knows. That constant - c- also appears in the most famous of all scientific equations: e=mc2- Yet over the last few years, a small group of highly reputable young physicists have suggested that the central dogma of modern physics may not be an absolute truth - light may have moved faster in the earlier life of the universe, it may still be moving at different speeds elsewhere today. In telling the story of this heresy, and its gradual journey towards acceptance, Joao Magueijo writes as one of the three central figures in the story, introducing the reader to modern cosmology, to the implications of VSL (variable speed of light) and to the world of physicists. The initial rejection of Magueijo's ideas is beginning to give way to a reluctant acceptance that the young men may have a point - only the next few years will tell the final fate of this 'dangerous' idea.

Author : Barry E. Zimmerman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Nothing Can Travel Faster Than Light-- and Other Explorations in Nature's Curiosity Shop written by Barry E. Zimmerman and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the sky blue? What killed off the dinosaurs? How big is the universe? Can computers think? Why do we grow old? To the open-eyed and inquisitive, nature is a fascinating curiosity shop with an endless array of wonders and mysteries on display. Yet most of us know very little about the marvelous aspects of science that surround us every day of our lives. Why Nothing Can Travel Faster than Light is a lively collection of engrossing and highly readable essays that shed light on some of the most provocative questions about science and technology. Barry and David Zimmerman, brothers who teach science and write widely on science subjects, range effortlessly across the broad spectrum that is nature: from how the universe began to its probable fate, from cryonics to ozone depletion, from natural history to quantum physics. Their essays will enlighten and entertain everyone who enjoys the wonder of exploring nature's marvelous curiosity shop.

Author : Andrew L. Bender
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595408222
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SlipString Drive written by Andrew L. Bender and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for amateur physicists. This book takes you through the basics of string and M-theories so that you can embark on a "faster than light" voyage without violating physics. Andrew Bender proposes a method of travel by using gravity waves to completely isolate volumes of spacetime from the rest of the universe