Miracles of ordinary things. Chong M.

Marcus Choun is a British scientist, journalist and writer, one of the best popularizers of science today. Few people know how he is simply, intelligibly, with light humor - to tell about the most difficult scientific ideas, whether it be the principles of quantum mechanics or cosmological concepts.

in his new book “Miracles of ordinary things” Marcus Choon demonstrates an amazing, deceptive simple principle of acquaintance with the world of modern physics: he takes the most ordinary things and phenomena and forces them to talk about the secrets of the universe, about the riddles of micro and macrome.

, under the pen of Marcus Chown, ordinary window glass tells about probabilities governing the universe. A drop of blood on the finger, remaining after the injection, shares his impressions of the processes occurring in the depths of the stars. And the ordinary electric light bulb and floor boards under the feet turn into paradoxical, mysterious objects that, it turns out, in principle, do not have to exist!

Marcus Chown (b. 1959) - in the last radio aServation that successfully worked in the California technological technological technological institute; Now- the permanent author of the magazine "New Saientist", a television and radio host, a popularizer of science.