The speed of light :: constancy + cosmos /

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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Main Author: Grandy, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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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