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The speed of light : constancy + cosmos
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The speed of light : constancy + cosmos

Author: David Grandy
Publisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Light - our experience of light, our measurement of light, and the notion that light speed is constant - can be understood to mark our interface with the cosmos. David A. Grandy's book moves from the scientific to the existential, from Einstein to Merleau-Ponty, from light as a phenomenon to light as that which is constitutive of reality. To measure the speed of light is to measure something about the way we are  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Grandy
ISBN: 9780253353221 9780253220868 : 025335322X 0253220866
OCLC Number: 261176959
Description: xii, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Space, time, and light speed constancy --
Special relativity --
Horizonal light --
Experiential light --
Relational light --
Internal relations --
Light in a vacuum --
Ambient light --
Pre-reflective experience --
Body, world, and light --
Existential light.
Responsibility: David A. Grandy.

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Light - our experience of light, our measurement of light, and the notion that light speed is constant - can be understood to mark our interface with the cosmos. This book moves from the scientific  Read more...

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"A brilliant and distinguished book ... Grandy introduces a trans-scientific understanding of light as a deep ordering principle within the universe." Thaddeus J. Trenn, University of Toronto

 
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