"Dr. Robert Nemiroff is a Professor of Physics at Michigan Technological University. He is quite proud of his award as an ""exceptional graduate student mentor."" He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022. Dr. Nemiroff is perhaps best known as a creator and editor for one of NASA's most popular science websites: The Astronomy Picture of the Day at https: //apod.nasa.gov/. This book is a humorous popularization of surprising research published in top physics and astrophysics journals. In his spare time, Robert likes to play basketball, read and watch science fiction, and think about concepts in science that are both very simple and very strange."
"""Imagine embarking on a journey to comprehend the physics of the entire universe with a guide who's not only an expert but makes the concepts digestible and entertaining. Robert J. Nemiroff offers such a journey in Faster Than Light, a book that initially describes the speed of light, then touches on subjects as esoteric as time travel using the theory of relativity and speculation on how to send information back in time, among other subjects."" -- BlueInk Reviews (starred review) "" ... takes readers on a wild ride through the ins and outs of the speed of light in this mind-bending guide. His primary approach is through a series of humorous thought experiments ... explanations are clear and concise, and most of them require only logic to sort out, making the book more accessible than similar titles."" -- Booklife ""A fresh and joyous ride through the mind-bending puzzles at the heart of nature's most fundamental speed that remind us that the universe is strange beyond belief"" -- Caleb Scharf (Author: The Ascent of Information) ""Better than a new particle collider!"" -- Sabine Hossenfelder (Author: Existential Physics)"