![]() ![]() This is understanding how your world works. So it’s also not that it’s just about toys or even about luxury. To understand those systems you need to understand the complexities of the everyday, not quantum mechanics or cosmology. We have a body, a planet, and a civilization. Does that account for the lack of conversation around everyday physics? Galaxies are pretty awesome compared to popcorn. It doesn’t have this aura of elitism attached to it.īig stuff is cool in a way that little stuff isn’t. If you’re talking about tea cups, it’s somehow not proper science, not “hard enough.” But it is hard, because there’s just as much beauty and sophistication in the real world as there is in any other area of science. In fact, there’s a lot of snobbishness when it comes to these things - like it somehow has to be distant and elite to be cleverly articulated. I didn’t see anyone else talking about it. And this is really how the universe works. There just kind of take a lucky dip, a little here, a little there - but there’s nothing about them that says there’s a bigger pattern here. There are books that talk about little everyday things but they don’t really sketch a picture. And those are brilliant tools, but they give people an excuse to retreat from the world around them.ĭid you find that a lot of other people were discussing what you wanted to talk about in this book, or was this sort of a wide-open niche topic? It struck me that people are getting further and further away from physical reality in some sense with smart phones and touch screens. So writing the book is just an extension of sharing my enthusiasm for playing with the physical world. I’m a physicist because I like playing with toys and I like seeing how the physical world is. ![]() It wasn’t so much inspiration - that’s just the way I see the world. What is the Inspiration behind this and how did it come together? Inverse spoke with Czerski about what it’s like to see the world for what it is and what it’s like to go about your life anyway. In her new book, Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, she makes the mundane explosive. In her work, she seeks to understand the human experience in non-human terms. Unless you’re Helen Czerski - and there’s only a one in 7 billion chance you are.Ī physicist and oceanographer at University College London, Czerski is an investigator of the banal. Look close enough and an overflowing coffee mug is almost debilitatingly complicated. In a general sense, we know this to be true, but understanding exactly how this is true - totally understanding the F=MA situation - require extraordinary expertise because ordinary experiences are really complicated. Without the laws of physics to tie the fabric of the universe, the whole thing would fall apart (more than it already has). ![]()
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