Science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge University and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of www.popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World, The Quantum Age and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide.
A fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It brings together all
aspects of light in an unusual and compelling way.
*Sir Patrick Moore CBE*
A fascinating book which illuminates and entertains.
*Sir Clive Sinclair*
Light's properties often seem mysterious to the point of being
unfathomable. Yet in this extraordinary book Brian Clegg manages to
explain them through the lives of those so fixated with light that
they have shaped our perception of it... Clegg's accessible writing
style manages to encapsulate the lives of light's disciples with
humorous and interesting anecdotes... Clegg also provides real
scientific insight into how light behaves. He explains complex
theories through lucid metaphors, without resorting to the
elaborate diagrams so beloved of some popular science
writers...Clegg indulges in future gazing, too, the results of
which are quite awesome.
*New Scientist*
This immensely likeable work of pop science traces "man's enduring
fascination with light", from Aristotle's plans for a death ray
(burning enemy ships with a giant array of mirrors) through to a
recent experiment that seems to have sent Mozart's 40th Symphony
faster than light, and thus back through time. Clegg is very good
at explaining the bizarre properties of light.
*Steven Poole, Guardian*
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