Sidney Perkowitz

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. Emory physicist Sidney Perkowitz discusses how we are harnessing the mysteries of light into technologies like lasers and fiber optics that are transforming our daily lives. Science-fiction fantasies like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak are turning into real possibilities. Please click here for more info. Contents: What is Light? The Mystery ContinuesWhy is Light so Fast?Can Anything Go Even Faster?Slow, Stopped, Fast, and Backwards LightExtreme and Entangled LightInvisibilityLight Fantasy to Light Reality Readership: For physics enthusiasts all over the world. Keywords:Light;Invisibility;Teleportation;Entanglement;Slow Light;Fast Light;Backwards Light;Laser;Laser Fusion;Quantum;Quantum Computing;Quantum Cryptography;Relativity;Faster Than Light Travel;Science Fiction;Star Trek;Cloaking Device;Invisible ManKey Features:Slow Light is unique in bringing together different aspects of contemporary light science and technology, and presenting them at a popular level. No other title covers all these areas. Slow light and invisibility in particular have not been presented at length in popular booksThe book will appeal to both science fans and science fiction fans, for it weaves real science together with fictional science. It presents both ongoing research and classic and modern science fiction, from H G Wells' “The Invisible Man” through “Star Trek” to contemporary films and television seriesThe author brings expertise in light gained from his own laboratory research, and is also known as a skilled and clear expositor of science for non-scientists. His earlier “Empire of Light”, about science and art, gained critical acclaim and has been translated into several languages. His “Digital People” and “Hollywood Science” have also established him as a lecturer and media figure who explores the relations between science and science fictionReviews:“This excellent little book tells of the truly marvelous properties of light that have been revealed in the last half century or so. Highly recommended.”Choice “With an elegant and clear style, Perkowitz takes the reader through the reality of these remarkable phenomena, including the strange quantum effects related to entanglement. Here is an author who is keen to show that what we know is already amazing, without having to pour over the purely hypothetical.”CERN Courier

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