![]() Science: the continual refinement and testing of our understanding, alongside the digging that reveals even more to be understood. Hidden beneath both is a systematic basis for all such formations, one discovered and explored and tested by rigorous experiments carried out by generations of humans. It’s a clue that hints at something more fundamental. We know these swirls as depressions or cyclones,Īnd we experience rapid changes between wind, rain, and sunshine as the arms of the spiral spin past.Ī rotating storm might seem to have very little in common with a stirred mug of tea, but the similarity in the patterns is more than coincidence. The cool and warm air chase each other around in circles, and you can see the pattern clearly on satellite images. North and warm tropical air to the south. They form at the boundary between cold polar air to the In Britain, these swirls come rolling across the Atlantic from the west on a regular basis, causing our notoriously changeable weather. If you look down on the Earth from space, you will often see very similar swirls in the clouds, made where warm air and cold air waltz around each other instead of mixingĭirectly. But it was there for long enough to be seen, a brief reminder that liquids mixin beautiful swirling patterns and not by merging instantaneously. In your teacup, the spiral lasts just a few seconds before the two If you pour milk into your tea and give it a quick stir, you’ll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids circling each other while barely touching. Principles and the same atoms combining in different ways to produce a rich bounty of outcomes. The physical world is full of startling variety, caused by the same This is the place to look if you’re interested in what makes the universe tick. Our home here on Earth is the opposite: messy, changeable, bursting with noveltyĪnd full of things that we touch and tweak every day. Every human civilization has seen the stars, but no one has touched them. Landmarks unique to our place in the cosmos. On a clear night, anyone can admire the vast legions of bright stars, familiar and permanent, WE LIVE ON the edge, perched on the boundary between planet Earth and the rest of the universe. “Ooh,” she said, “and what can you do when you know that?” Nana, a down-to-earth northerner, was very impressed when I told her that I was studying the structure of the atom. While I was a university student, I spent a while doing physics revision at my Nana’s house. Thanks to Helen's brilliantly engaging book you'll never consider anything to be mundane or ordinary again.Transkrypt (Ē5 z dostępnych 52 stron) STRONA 3 The written equivalent of a spectrum beaming out from a prism. "Helen Czerski has a remarkable knack for finding scientific wonders under every rock, alongside every raindrop, and inside every grain of sand. " has a formidable knack for explaining mind-bending concepts in easy-to-understand language the book to read this week." "In a friendly, chatty style that includes anecdotes from her personal and professional life, Czerski manages to make spilled coffee fascinating tree growth astonishing telecommunications intuitive." The little fascinations we left behind in childhood are but her jumping-off points for the really, really big picture Hers if the kind of self-assured, endearing nerdishness that doesn't wait to see if you're on board: she pulls you along, anticipating your head-scratching at every fluorescing scorpion and swirling drop of milk in your teacup." "Helen Czerski's absorbing Storm in a Teacup stands head and shoulders above other popular science books. It's a wonderful way to discover the hidden scientific connections behind the ordinary and everyday." Helen invites you in to see the world through a her eyes and understand how a physicist thinks. "This book is charming, accessible and enthusiastic. Fun, fascinating and brilliantly well written – 'Right there, in my teacup, I can see the storm.' Me too and I know what it is now." It is rare that someone can explain that which seems endlessly complex and makes you feel like in fact you'd understood it all along. It'll carry you gently to the peak and show you how stunning and beautiful the view is. "If you've ever felt like understanding how things work is just too big a mountain to climb then read this book. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the Large Hadron Collider." "A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics.
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