Slow light : invisibility, teleportation and other mysteries of light / Sidney Perkowitz.

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Perkowitz, Sidney

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 145 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1848167539
9781848167537

Other title:

Invisibility, teleportation and other mysteries of light

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

535 23

LOC classification:

QC389 .P47 2011
QC355.3 .P47 2011

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Contents:

Ch. 1. What is light? The mystery continues -- Ch. 2. Why is light so fast? -- Ch. 3. Can anything go even faster? -- Ch. 4. Slow, stopped, fast, and backwards light -- Ch. 5. Extreme and entangled light -- Ch. 6. Invisibility -- Ch. 7. Light fantasy to light reality.

Summary: Slow Light is a popular treatment of today's astonishing breakthroughs in the science of light. Even though we don't understand light's quantum mysteries, we can slow it to a stop and speed it up beyond its Einsteinian speed limit, 186,000 miles/sec; use it for quantum telecommunications; teleport it; manipulate it to create invisibility; and perhaps generate hydrogen fusion power with it. All this is lucidly presented for non-scientists who wonder about teleportation, Harry Potter invisibility cloaks, and other fantastic outcomes. Slow Light shows how the real science and the fantasy inspire.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-137) and index.

Slow Light is a popular treatment of today's astonishing breakthroughs in the science of light. Even though we don't understand light's quantum mysteries, we can slow it to a stop and speed it up beyond its Einsteinian speed limit, 186,000 miles/sec; use it for quantum telecommunications; teleport it; manipulate it to create invisibility; and perhaps generate hydrogen fusion power with it. All this is lucidly presented for non-scientists who wonder about teleportation, Harry Potter invisibility cloaks, and other fantastic outcomes. Slow Light shows how the real science and the fantasy inspire.

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