3D films 12, 41, 50
γ-rays 10, 11
A
Abbe, Ernst 27, 43, 90
Abbe’s criterion 27, 28, 32, 44
absorption 61, 72, 77–8, 94, 99
action 57, 63
aether 37
Al-Hazen 16
aluminium 91, 92
Ampere, Andre-Marie 12
angle of incidence 17, 19of reflection 17of refraction 22
astronomy 30
atom 14, 46–9, 58–61, 68–78, 82,85–6, 98–106, 111, 121
attoscience 82
aurorae 71
B
Bacon, Roger 25
Balmer, Johannes 58
Bell, John 117
Bell tests 117–18
Betzig, Eric 44
binoculars 28
birefringence 36, 48
birefringent materials 49
black bodies 58–9
Blake, William 123
Blu-ray 77
Bohr, Niels 61
Bose, Satyendra Nath 100
Bose–Einstein condensate 100
Brewster, David 49
brightness 6, 17, 28
butterfly wing 55
C
caesium 86, 91
calcite 35,
camera 15, 25, 27, 44, 55, 79–81
candles 3
CD (compact disc) 4, 77
chromatic aberration 21–4
clock 84, 85–9, 91
coherence 8, 74–7
colour 8–12, 21, 24, 58, 76–8
constructive 38–9, 76
contact lenses 25
copper 93–4
cornea 24–5
correlations 117–18, 121
classical 117
correlations (cont.)
quantum 118
Coulomb, Charles Augustin de 12
Crick, Francis 10
D
de Broglie, Louis 63
De Luce 83 see also Grossteste
destructive 38–9
Diamond Light Source 79
diffraction 10, 36, 45–7, 55, 79
Dirac, Paul 62, 73
DVD (digital video disc) 4, 77
E
Edgerton, Harold 80, 82
Einstein, Albert 60, 73, 84, 88–9, 100
electric charges 37, 38, 43, 60, 67
electromagnetic field 37–8, 52, 62,65, 72, 115
electron 60–1, 65, 67, 68–72, 78–9,82, 85–6, 93, 102–7, 123
energy 3, 7, 59–61, 65–6, 69–73,75, 85–6, 104–7, 131
entanglement 116, 118, 121