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The Speed of Light. The Speed of Light (originally published in Spanish as La velocidad de la luz) is the fifth book of narrative Spanish writer Javier Cercas. The novel was first published in March 2005 by Tusquets Editores. [1] [2] The book was translated into English by Anne McLean, then published by Bloomsbury in 2006.
Death's End ( Chinese: 死神永生) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the third novel in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, following the Hugo Award -winning novel The Three-Body Problem and its sequel, The Dark Forest. The original Chinese version was published in 2010.
Speed of Dark. Speed of Dark (released in some markets as The Speed of Dark) is a near-future science fiction novel by American author Elizabeth Moon. [1] The story is told from the first person viewpoint of an autistic person. [2] It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003, [3] and was also an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist.
The lecture proves less comprehensible than he had hoped. He drifts off to sleep and enters a dream world in which the speed of light is a mere 4.5 m/s (10 mph). This becomes apparent to him as passing cyclists are subject to a noticeable Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction. Mr Tompkins becomes acquainted with the professor delivering the lectures ...
White Light is a work of science fiction by Rudy Rucker published in 1980 by Virgin Books in the UK and Ace Books in the US. It was written while Rucker was teaching mathematics at the University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980, at roughly the same time he was working on the non-fiction book Infinity and the Mind .
Einstein sensed a conflict between Newtonian mechanics and the constant speed of light determined by Maxwell's equations. [6] : 114–115 Regardless of the historical and scientific issues described above, Einstein's early thought experiment was part of the repertoire of test cases that he used to check on the viability of physical theories.
978-0-31-646870-1. May I Trade with These True Friends! (この真の仲間達とトレードを！. , Kono Shin no Nakama-tachi to Torēdo o!) May There Be Peace for the Master of This Maze! (この迷宮の主に安らぎを！. , Kono Meikyū no Nushi ni Yasuragi o!) May Love Reach Out to This Ghost Girl! (この幽霊少女に愛の手を！.
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel is a book by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Kaku uses discussion of speculative technologies to introduce topics of fundamental physics to the reader. The topic of invisibility becomes a discussion on why the speed of ...