How to Speak Science - Gravity, Relativity and Other Ideas that Were Crazy until Proven Brilliant, UK Edition

How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity and Other Ideas that Were Crazy until Proven Brilliant, UK Edition



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English | September 6th, 2018 | ISBN: 0753548801 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 3.80 MB

How do magnets work?
What is the theory of relativity all about?
Is light made of waves or particles?
And how on earth can a levitating goat teach us about atomic structure?

In this age of smartphones, artificial intelligence, supercolliders, supercomputers and other cutting-edge technology, we've lost touch with many of the most basic science concepts that launched our information age. For Bruce Benamren, science is about stories and characters. Why, for instance, did pirates wear eye patches? That's all to do with how the retina processes light. Pirates running down to the gun deck would have no time to let their eyes get used to the dark, so they kept one eye gun-deck ready.