{"id":20887,"date":"2020-10-06T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/libros-que-nos-inspiran\/libros-que-nos-inspiran-no-hace-falta-ser-einstein-ben-miller"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:00:53","slug":"libros-que-nos-inspiran-no-hace-falta-ser-einstein-de-ben-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/libros-que-nos-inspiran-no-hace-falta-ser-einstein-de-ben-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Books that inspire us: &#039;You don&#039;t have to be Einstein&#039; by Ben Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/714269\/81x8m96umrl\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Libros que nos inspiran: \u2018No hace falta ser Einstein\u2019 de Ben Miller\">\n    <\/p>\n<p><em>You don&#039;t have to be Einstein<\/em> ofrece justamente lo que describe en su t\u00edtulo: que no es requisito indispensable ser un genio de la f\u00edsica para comprender algunos de los m\u00e1s intrincados procesos f\u00edsicos que nos rodean, desde el comportamiento de lo infinitamente peque\u00f1o (la mesa, la silla, la pared en realidad est\u00e1n casi totalmente vac\u00edos, que sean s\u00f3lidos es s\u00f3lo una ilusi\u00f3n), hasta el funcionamiento de la que se considera la obra civil m\u00e1s importante y compleja de la historia de la humanidad, el <strong>Large Hadron Collider<\/strong>, un monstruo de casi treinta kil\u00f3metros de circunferencia que precisamente sirve para averiguar de qu\u00e9 se compone lo infinitamente peque\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>David Bisbal and other jokes<\/h2>\n<p>But <em>You don&#039;t have to be Einstein<\/em> no se queda en este encomiable objetivo: tambi\u00e9n pretende que nos echemos unas risas leyendo acerca de todas esas cosas que, en el \u00e1mbito del instituto o del colegio, eran fuente de eternos bostezos. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><\/p>\n<p>And it is that <strong>Ben Miller<\/strong>, despu\u00e9s de licenciarse en F\u00edsica en Cambridge, se ha labrado una carrera como humorista. S\u00f3lo as\u00ed se entiende que en un libro de f\u00edsica, ya desde la primera p\u00e1gina, a fin de explicar el Big Bang, se mencione a David Bisbal. Y en la p\u00e1gina tres vuelve a aparecer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>Todo ello jalonado de cultura pop y con una prosa tan cercana que en ning\u00fan momento nos da la impresi\u00f3n de que el libro haya sido escrito por un f\u00edsico (en el sentido academicista del t\u00e9rmino), sino por un colega muy pr\u00f3ximo y jacarandoso que nos cuenta el Big Crunch con el mismo tono con el que nos contar\u00eda su \u00faltima borrachera en un bar de mala muerte.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><!-- PIVOT START --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pivot-ecommerce-container\">\n<div class=\"pivot-ecommerce\">\n<div class=\"pivot-ecommerce-figure\">\n   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"No hace falta ser Einstein (Libros Singulares (Ls))\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51IGRZjp9YL.jpg\">\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"pivot-ecommerce-summary\">\n<p class=\"pivot-ecommerce-desc\">You don&#039;t have to be Einstein (Singular Books (Ls))<\/p>\n<div class=\"pivot-actions js-pivot-actions\">\n<div class=\"pivot-actions-row\">\n <a rel=\"nofollow\" data-asin=\"8420678074\" data-store=\"Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.es%2Fdp%2F8420678074&amp;category=libros-que-nos-inspiran&amp;pivot=1\" title=\"Price updated today\" class=\"pivot-action-primary js-pivot-action\">Today on Amazon for \u20ac168.35<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pivot-actions-row\">\n <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- PIVOT END --><\/p>\n<p>Para sazonar esta sensaci\u00f3n, la presente edici\u00f3n viene plastificada, pues al libro le acompa\u00f1a un desplegable con dibujos, sentencias y esquemas que se inspiran en los a\u00f1os 50-60, cuando se estrenaban pel\u00edculas de ciencia ficci\u00f3n baratas o directamente de serie B, <strong>y el t\u00e9rmino \u201cnuclear\u201d sonaba a monstruos gigantes con ojos de mosca<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s, Miller pone su granito de arena para olvidarnos de dividir a la gente en \u201cde letras\u201d o \u201cde ciencias\u201d, apostando por un alfanumerismo que solo los epist\u00e9micamente hambrientos cultivan a expensas de las divisiones acad\u00e9micas:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Siempre me han gustado las letras, igual que las ciencias, y siempre me ha parecido raro que las dos disciplinas est\u00e9n separadas por una extra\u00f1a especie de apartheid educativo. Si tuvi\u00e9ramos que generalizar sobre la actual situaci\u00f3n del asunto (de lo contrario, \u00bfpara qu\u00e9 diantres sirve un libro como este?), dir\u00edamos que las letras tienen algo de aristocr\u00e1tico, de lit\u00fargico, de mon\u00e1rquico, mientras que en conjunto las ciencias parecen ser m\u00e1s igualitarias, m\u00e1s coloquiales y democr\u00e1ticas. De repente nos encontramos a uno de los dos lados de esa l\u00ednea divisoria cultural, y b\u00e1sicamente nos vemos caracterizados o bien como unos dandis, fantasiosos y creativos, o bien como personas poco aseadas, sabihondas y empollonas, de trato dif\u00edcil, que no encajan en la sociedad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/f54aea\/81x8m96umrl\/450_1000.jpg\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n (function() {\n  window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {};\n  var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n  if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) {\n   var instagramScript = document.createElement('script');\n   instagramScript.src = 'https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js';\n   instagramScript.async = true;\n   instagramScript.defer = true;\n   headElement.appendChild(instagramScript);\n  }\n })();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/libros-que-nos-inspiran\/libros-que-nos-inspiran-no-hace-falta-ser-einstein-ben-miller?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> Books that inspire us: &#039;You don&#039;t have to be Einstein&#039; by Ben Miller <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/ka4PR7SF0yc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/714269\/81x8m96umrl\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Libros que nos inspiran: &lsquo;No hace falta ser Einstein&rsquo; de Ben Miller\"><\/p>\n<p><em>You don&#039;t have to be Einstein<\/em> 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 <strong>Large Hadron Collider<\/strong>, a monster almost thirty kilometers in circumference that precisely serves to find out what the infinitely small is made of.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>David Bisbal and other jokes<\/h2>\n<p>But <em>You don&#039;t have to be Einstein<\/em> 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. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><\/p>\n<p>And it is that <strong>Ben Miller<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><!-- PIVOT START --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"No hace falta ser Einstein (Libros Singulares (Ls))\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51IGRZjp9YL.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>You don&#039;t have to be Einstein (Singular Books (Ls))<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n <a rel=\"nofollow\" data-asin=\"8420678074\" data-store=\"Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.es%2Fdp%2F8420678074&amp;category=libros-que-nos-inspiran&amp;pivot=1\" title=\"Price updated today\">Today on Amazon for \u20ac168.35<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- PIVOT END --><\/p>\n<p>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, <strong>and the term \u201cnuclear\u201d sounded like giant monsters with fly eyes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Miller does his part to forget about dividing people into \u201cliterary\u201d or \u201cscience\u201d people, betting on an alphanumerism that only the epistemically hungry cultivate at the expense of academic divisions:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/f54aea\/81x8m96umrl\/450_1000.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/libros-que-nos-inspiran\/libros-que-nos-inspiran-no-hace-falta-ser-einstein-ben-miller?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> Books that inspire us: &#039;You don&#039;t have to be Einstein&#039; by Ben Miller <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Oct_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/ka4PR7SF0yc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21447,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions\/21447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}