Title:
Zapped : from infrared to X-rays, the curious history of invisible light / Bob Berman.
Author:
Berman, Bob, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
©2017
Call Number:
QC450.5 .B47 2017
Abstract:
"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.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780316311304
Physical Description:
vi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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 -- Rontgen 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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