CREATIVE EDUCATION JIM WHITING Light MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE
Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Blue Design Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Getty Images Franz Aberham Apic Harry Bartlett Skip Brown Alan Copson George Diebold Photography Hulton Archive Nathan Lazarnick George Eastman House Ottavio Mario Leoni MILpictures by Tom Weber Kyu Oh Science Picture Co SSPL Dimitri Vervitsiotis NASA JAXA NASA NASA NASA JPL-Caltech UCLA NASA SDO Cover and folio illustration 2011 Alex Ryan Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whiting Jim Light by Jim Whiting p cm Mysteries of the universe Includes bibliographical references and index Summary An examination of the science behind the physical phenomenon known as light including relevant theories and history making discoveries as well as topics of current and future research ISBN 978-1-60818-190-2 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-140-5 eBook 1 Light Juvenile literature I Title QC360 W46 2012 535 dc23 2011040143 First Edition 987654321