To my brother-in-law Robert Ackerman who has encouraged me for years and helped turn these pages into a better story M W For Kaia-roo Keep imagining my little vampire Love Aunt Bee R E
LIGHT FINDING THE SPEED OF The 1676 Discovery That Dazzled the World Speed of Light don’t make me Laugh i’m a ScientiSt and i’ve never even heard of Such a thing Look here everyone knowS that Light iS inStant a riSing Sun doeSn’t Light up one Street at a time but the whoLe town aLL at once Written by Mark Weston Illustrated by Rebecca Evans don’t be ridicuLouS Speed of Light there iS no Such thing you’re juSt going to embarraSS yourSeLf
NEW YORK THE UNITED STATES of America CALIFORNIA CANADA where did you get Such huge mirrorS Some narrator guy juSt gave them to me and diSappeared
Ole Romer's Eye Ole Romer aarrrgh who iS oLe romer never heard of him iS he from Spain he’S daniSh you biLge rat hand over your goLd Light is the fastest thing in the universe If there were giant mirrors above New York and California light could bounce between them twenty times in the blink of an eye Really Twenty times How do we know this How can anyone measure something as fast as light Incredibly the first person to do it lived long ago before computers or digital clocks In 1676 when pirates still sailed the seas a young man named Ole Romer figured out the speed of light using only a crude telescope and a mechanical clock
