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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grandy, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Light > Speed.
Space and time.
Time > Philosophy.
Lumière > Vitesse.
Temps > Philosophie.
SCIENCE > Physics > Optics & Light.
Light > Speed
Space and time
Time > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 measured or blended into the cosmos, and that universal blending predetermines our measureme.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 197 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253003621
0253003628

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