You don't have to be Einstein offers precisely what it describes in its title: that it is not an essential requirement to be a physics genius to understand some of the most intricate physical processes that surround us, from the behavior of the infinitely small (the table, the chair, the wall in reality are almost totally empty, that they are solid is just an illusion), to the operation of what is considered the most important and complex civil work in the history of humanity, the Large Hadron Collider, a monster almost thirty kilometers in circumference that precisely serves to find out what the infinitely small is made of.
David Bisbal and other jokes
But You don't have to be Einstein It does not stop at this commendable objective: it also aims to make us laugh while reading about all those things that, in the context of high school or school, were a source of eternal yawning.
And it is that Ben Miller, after graduating in Physics from Cambridge, has carved out a career as a comedian. This is the only way to understand that in a physics book, from the first page, in order to explain the Big Bang, David Bisbal is mentioned. And on page three it appears again.
All of this is punctuated by pop culture and with prose so close that at no time does it give us the impression that the book has been written by a physicist (in the academic sense of the term), but by a very close and boastful colleague who tells us the Big Crunch with the same tone with which he would tell us about his last drunk in a seedy bar.
You don't have to be Einstein (Singular Books (Ls))
To season this sensation, this edition comes laminated, since the book is accompanied by a foldout with drawings, sentences and diagrams that are inspired by the 50s and 60s, when cheap science fiction or straight B series movies were released, and the term “nuclear” sounded like giant monsters with fly eyes.
Furthermore, Miller does his part to forget about dividing people into “literary” or “science” people, betting on an alphanumerism that only the epistemically hungry cultivate at the expense of academic divisions:
I have always liked literature, as well as science, and it has always seemed strange to me that the two disciplines are separated by a strange kind of educational apartheid. If we had to generalize about the current situation of the matter (otherwise, what on earth is a book like this for?), we would say that literature has something aristocratic, liturgical, monarchical, while on the whole the sciences seem to be more egalitarian, more colloquial and democratic. Suddenly we find ourselves on one of the two sides of that cultural dividing line, and basically we see ourselves characterized either as dandies, fanciful and creative, or as unclean, knowledgeable and nerdy people, difficult to deal with, who do not fit in. the society.
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