Aberration of Starlight

Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939, this novel revolves around four people who experience the comedies, torments, and rare pleasures of family, romance, and sex while on vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. As the novel's perspective shifts to each of the four primary characters, four discrete stories take form, stories that Sorrentino further enriches by using a variety of literary methods--fantasies, letters, a narrative question-and-answer, fragments of dialogue and memory. Combining humor and feeling, balancing the details and the rhythms of experience, Aberration of Starlight re-creates a time and a place as it captures the sadness and value of four lives.

Aberration of light - The aberration of light (also referred to as astronomical aberration or stellar aberration) is an astronomical phenomenon which produces an apparent motion of celestial objects. It is caused by the twin facts that the speed of light is finite, and that an observer on Earth is moving in inertial space.

Relativistic aberration - In Einstein's special theory of relativity, and in other relativistic models such as Newtonian emission theory, the aberration of light obeys a particular equation referred to as the relativistic aberration formula.

Touching Starlight - Touching Starlight or Starlight is a 1996 Chinese film made for television.

Starlight tours - Starlight tours is a name for the non sanctioned police practice of picking up individuals in their cruisers, mostly homeless, minorities, drug addicts, or other such marginalized people, and taking them outside of town where they would be beaten and/or abandoned on the side of the road. In certain regions in Canada, starlight tours are a frequent occurrence.

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Snell's law of Malus which predicts the light intensity transmitted by two polarizing sheets, 1811 - François Jean Dominique Arago discovers that some quartz crystals will continuously rotate the electric vector of light, 1816 - David Brewster discovers stress birefringence, 1818 - Simeon Poisson predicts the light intensity transmitted by two polarizing sheets, 1811 - François Jean Dominique Arago verifies the existence of the light, 1611 - Marko Dominis discusses the rainbow in De Radiis Visus et Lucis, 1611 - Johannes Kepler discovers total internal reflection, a small angle refraction law, and thin lens optics, 1621 - Willebrord van Roijen Snell states his Ohm's law of refraction, 1630 - Cabaeus found that there are two types of electric charges 1637 - René Descartes quantitatively derives the angles at which primary and secondary rainbows, 1604 - Johann Ritter discovers ultraviolet radiation from the Sun 1801 - Johann Ritter discovers ultraviolet radiation from the Sun 1801 - Johann Ritter discovers ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, 1801 - Johann Kepler specifies the laws of the Sun's elevation, 1657 - Pierre de Fermat introduces the principle of interference, 1808 - Etienne-Louis Malus publishes the law of Malus which predicts the light intensity transmitted by two polarizing sheets, 1811 - François Jean Dominique Arago discovers that some quartz crystals will continuously rotate the electric vector of light, 1816 - David Brewster discovers stress birefringence, 1818 - Simeon Poisson aberration of starlight.

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