By Claude Phipps
This e-book explores and explains medical mysteries and rules, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and an abundance of illustrations. Chapters are brief, yet supply an realizing of expertise and technology no longer to be had in different places. Questions include:
• What holds a satellite tv for pc up whereas it is going round the Earth?
• Why is the sky (made out of transparent air!) blue rather than eco-friendly, or simply black as evening just like the sky that prime altitude jumper Felix Baumgartner saw?
• How is laser gentle various from “normal” light?
• Did Columbus rather detect that the Earth is round?
• Which one invention will veritably live on our civilization?
• Why can’t you commute again in time?
If you frequently think embarrassed since you don’t have a clue approximately lasers, the adaptation among volts, amps and watts, or how jet planes rather paintings – yet you must comprehend the actual ideas of our smooth global, no matter if you’re an adolescent or a guardian – this ebook is for you!
To comprehend the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, or of protons, neutrons and electrons, you don’t desire algebra, calculus,
or loads of equations or technical buzzwords. Too many of us were soured on technology by way of technological know-how lecturers who've made uncomplicated options appear advanced. This publication is the antidote: all it calls for is your interest.
Advance compliment for No ask yourself You Wonder!:
“From starting to finish, and with snigger after giggle, I loved each observe of this notable ebook. Phipps is a hell of a very good author, and the type of physics instructor that i'd have enjoyed as a tender pupil. No ask yourself You ask yourself may be engrossing for an individual with somewhat interest, not only the medical minded.” – Christophe Bonnal, leader Engineer, CNES (French area service provider)
“No ask yourself You ask yourself is a fa
ntastic e-book. overlaying themes comparable to area, topic, and the strength in the universe, this ebook does an outstanding task of clarifying those themes. It's an outstanding learn for younger scientists and aspiring physicists.” – August R., highschool freshman
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The universe we know would now be locked in a logical contradiction and some part of it would implode. A whole sequence of alternate universes, or contradictions, branches out from that one event like a tree. My grandfather and father and his sisters and their many children, and their children, also don’t exist in the present, nor do the effects of all the billions of actions and changes each of them made while actually living. Houses and other buildings vanish. Animals die. Bank accounts vanish.
One scientist has called it “a placeholder for our ignorance,” but we know something is making the universe expand faster the farther it is away from us. That means the more the universe expands, the more dark energy there is. It could just be vacuum energy, like we talk about in the section called “ZPE” at the end of this chapter. What Is Stuff? This is a rather philosophical question to throw into the middle of this book—but … what is stuff? By this, I mean physical reality that you can see, feel and taste.
The convention is that plus powers are capitalized and negative powers not zeros, but missing one, right? I mean “bi”llion ought to be 1 followed by two groups of 000’s, “tri”llion, 1 with three 000’s, “qunt”illion, 1 with five 000’s, etc. right? They all seem to be off by one group of 000’s. Go figure. Of course, a good scientific calculator can do all this for you, but I want you to understand these things without a calculator, really understand what the answer you get means, and be able to estimate things with just a pencil and the “back of an envelope,” or even your mental blackboard which I hope you can develop and exercise while reading this chapter.