Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 Light Fantastic 7
Chapter 2 Now You See It, Now You Don't 14
Chapter 3 The Green Planet and the Red Heat 26
Chapter 4 Hot Rays 39
Chapter 5 Ultraviolet Brings the Blues 46
Chapter 6 Danger Beyond the Violet 51
Chapter 7 Energy Rhythms 61
Chapter 8 The Exploding Sun 73
Chapter 9 No Soap 77
Chapter 10 Turning On and Tuning In 87
Chapter 11 The Speed That Destroyed Space and Time 93
Chapter 12 Microwaves Everywhere 103
Chapter 13 The Man with the X-ray Vision 112
Chapter 14 Rontgen Rays for Everyone 118
Chapter 15 What's in Your Basement? 126
Chapter 16 The Atomic Quartet 144
Chapter 17 Gamma Rays: The Impossible Light 155
Chapter 18 Cell-Phone Radiation 164
Chapter 19 Cosmic Rays 173
Chapter 20 Beams from the Universe's Birth 184
Chapter 21 Energy from Our Minds 191
Chapter 22 Ray Guns 198
Chapter 23 The Next Frontier: Zero-Point and Dark Energies 209
Chapter 24 Total Solar Eclipse: When the Rays Stop 216
Chapter 25 ETs May Be Broadcasting, but What's Their Number? 227
Chapter 26 Does Light Have a Bright Future? 236
Index 243
