Pew! Pew! Pew!
The Epic Science of Lasers
$33.36
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2027
Summary
Lasers are the quintessential technology of our wildest science-fictional dreams. In our collective imagination, they have waged battles in space, transported cows in tractor beams, and very nearly sliced James Bond in half. Meanwhile, off-screen, scientists have used real-life lasers to achieve even more ambitious goals, like global telecommunications, self-driving cars, quantum computing, and nuclear fusion.
The story of lasers is an account of both humanity’s impressive scientific …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035452835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035452839 |
| Author: | Janelle Shane |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Nobody but Janelle Shane could write a book about lasers that will have you cackling like a mad scientist one moment, and pondering the awe-inspiring properties of light the next. Whether you’re repairing the tractor beam on your starship, or just trying to figure out how a laser pointer works, you need PEW! PEW! PEW! * ANNALEE NEWITZ, bestselling author of Automatic Noodle and Four Lost Cities *
Janelle Shane
Janelle Shane has a PhD in engineering and a masters in physics. Her graduate research was in the applications of high-powered lasers, and as her day job, she designs artificial reality for insects. In her spare time, she experiments with training an AI to understand humans. She lives in Colorado.
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