For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time – A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics

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In For the Love of Physics, beloved MIT professor Walter Lewin, whose riveting physics lectures made him a YouTube super-star, takes readers on a remarkably fun, inventive, and continuously wacky journey that brings the joys of physics to life.

For the Love of Physics captures Walter Lewin’s strange intellect, passion for physics, and brilliance as a teacher”—Bill Gates.

For more than thirty years as a renowned professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewin’s lectures made physics not only accessible but fun, whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball, supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity, or demonstrating why the sky is blue and clouds are white. In For the Love of Physics, Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey, opening our eyes as never before to the wonders of physics and its amazing ability to reveal the beauty and power embedded in our world.

Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why are we able to snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow at all times in the similar order, are we able to stretch a hand out and touch one?

Using superbly clear and simple explanations of phenomena we’ve at all times wondered about, such as what the big bang would have sounded like had any person existed to hear it, Lewin surprises and delights with physics-based answers to even the most elusive questions.

Whether showing us that a flea is strong enough to pull a heavy book across a table, or describing the coolest, weirdest facts about the tiniest bits of matter, Lewin at all times entertains as he edifies. “For me,” Lewin writes, “physics is a way of seeing—the spectacular and the mundane, the immense and the minute—as a gorgeous, thrillingly interwoven whole.” For the Love of Physics is a rare gem with a view to change the way in which readers see the world.

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