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Wavewatchers Companion
One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised he wondered where they had come from and decided to find out. He soon realised that waves dont just appear on the ocean they are everywhere around us and our lives depend on them. From the rippling beats of our hearts to the movement of food through our digestive tracts and of signals across our brains waves are the transport systems of our bodies. Everything we see and hear reaches us via light and sound waves and our information age is reliant on the microwaves and infrared waves used by the telephone and internet infrastructure. From shockwaves unleashed by explosions to torsional waves that cause suspension bridges to
collapse from sonar waves that allow submarines to see with sound to Mexican waves that sweep through stadium crowds...there were waves it seemed wherever Gavin looked. But what he wondered could they all have in common with ones we splash around in on holiday? By the time he made the ultimate surfers pilgrimage to Hawaii Gavin had become a world-class wavewatcher although he was still rubbish at surfing. And while this fascinating funny book may not teach you how to ride the waves it will show you how to tune into the shapes colours and forms of lifes many undulations.
collapse from sonar waves that allow submarines to see with sound to Mexican waves that sweep through stadium crowds...there were waves it seemed wherever Gavin looked. But what he wondered could they all have in common with ones we splash around in on holiday? By the time he made the ultimate surfers pilgrimage to Hawaii Gavin had become a world-class wavewatcher although he was still rubbish at surfing. And while this fascinating funny book may not teach you how to ride the waves it will show you how to tune into the shapes colours and forms of lifes many undulations.
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