Slow light
Subtitle: invisibility, teleportation, and other mysteries of light
By: Sidney Perkowitz
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781848167520
Subjects: Quantum optics; Transmission; Light; Photons; Teleportation; Light body (Occultism); Invisibility; Parapsychology
Other titles: Invisibility, teleportation and other mysteries of light
Description: "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 each other, and projects light's incredible future."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. What is light? The mystery continues; title: Ch. 2. Why is light so fast?; title: Ch. 3. Can anything go even faster?; title: Ch. 4. Slow, stopped, fast, and backwards light; title: Ch. 5. Extreme and entangled light; title: Ch. 6. Invisibility; title: Ch. 7. Light fantasy to light reality.