From 7a15287015fb33da2050ea2d75969a8c8ff3c49c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Blaise Thompson Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:42:25 -0500 Subject: 2018-03-12 10:42 --- spectroscopy/chapter.tex | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'spectroscopy/chapter.tex') diff --git a/spectroscopy/chapter.tex b/spectroscopy/chapter.tex index 21a233d..a301117 100644 --- a/spectroscopy/chapter.tex +++ b/spectroscopy/chapter.tex @@ -12,6 +12,20 @@ \chapter{Spectroscopy} +\begin{dquote} + A hundred years ago, Auguste Comte, … a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to + visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing + that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. % + And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at + the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: ``Hydrogen!'' % + Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, + that we'll never know what stars are made of. % + + \dsignature{Michio Kaku} +\end{dquote} + +\clearpage + In this chapter I lay out the foundations of spectroscopy. \section{Light} -- cgit v1.2.3