Quirky Quarks: A Cartoon Guide to the Fascinating Realm of Physics

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Do you love quantum physics, cosmology, and the humor behind the popular television show The Big Bang Theory? Have you been on the lookout for a fun, non-technical explanation of the science behind things like time travel, wormholes, antimatter, and dark energy? You’ll find all of that, and more, inside this fact-filled, cartoon-packed book.

In Quirky Quarks: A Cartoon Guide to the Fascinating Realm of Physics you’ll get:

  • The latest science behind the mysteries of our universe explained in common everyday language.
  • A major dose of cartoons, comics, and humor.
  • A good grasp on the often-bizarre nature of reality.


Start reading and you’ll find that hard science does not have to be hard. Whether you’re a teacher, a physicist, or just a lover of the curious, this is the book that delivers the facts in an engaging and entertaining cartoon world inhabited by two dogs, a cat, and some very quirky quarks which you might know from The Particle Zoo.

With cutting edge science articles by physicists Boris Lemmer and Benjamin Bahr, and drawings by cartoonist Rina Piccolo, this may be the most fun science reading you’re likely to find out there.

Author(s): Benjamin Bahr, Boris Lemmer, Rina Piccolo (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: XVIII, 319
Tags: Popular Science in Physics; Physics, general

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 268-269
Auroras....Pages 2-5
Light....Pages 6-9
Invisibility Cloaks....Pages 10-13
The Doppler Shift....Pages 14-17
Lasers....Pages 18-21
Vacuum and Air Pressure....Pages 22-25
Fluid Flow and Turbulences....Pages 26-29
Why Does a Plane Fly?....Pages 30-33
Surface Tension....Pages 34-37
Non-Newtonian Fluid....Pages 38-41
Rocket Maneuvers....Pages 42-45
Kepler’s Laws....Pages 46-49
Conservation Laws....Pages 50-53
The Voyager Probes....Pages 54-57
Birth of the Solar System....Pages 58-61
Genesis of the Moon....Pages 62-65
Extrasolar Planets....Pages 66-69
Front Matter....Pages 70-71
Spectral Classification....Pages 72-77
Red Giants and Planetary Nebulae....Pages 78-81
Supernovae....Pages 82-85
Front Matter....Pages 70-71
White Dwarfs and Type Ia Supernovae....Pages 86-89
Black Holes....Pages 90-95
The Big Bang....Pages 96-99
Timeline of Our Universe....Pages 100-103
The Cosmic Microwave Background....Pages 104-107
Large Scale Structure of the Universe....Pages 108-111
Galaxy Types....Pages 112-115
Relative Space and Time....Pages 116-119
The Theory of General Relativity....Pages 120-123
Curved Space Time....Pages 124-127
Gravitational Lensing....Pages 128-131
Gravitational Lensing....Pages 132-135
Dark Energy....Pages 136-139
Front Matter....Pages 140-141
Wave-Particle Duality....Pages 142-145
The Double Slit Experiment....Pages 146-149
Heisenberg Uncertainty....Pages 150-153
Schrödinger’s Cat....Pages 154-157
Feynman Paths....Pages 158-161
Quantum Tunneling....Pages 162-165
Radioactive Decay....Pages 166-169
Front Matter....Pages 140-141
Alpha, Beta and Gamma Rays....Pages 170-173
Nuclear Fusion....Pages 174-177
Superconductors....Pages 178-181
Superfluidity....Pages 182-185
Spin....Pages 186-189
Entanglement....Pages 190-193
Quantum Teleportation....Pages 194-197
Qubits....Pages 198-201
Front Matter....Pages 202-203
Atoms vs. Elementary Particles....Pages 204-207
The Neutrino....Pages 208-211
Standard Model of Elementary Particles....Pages 212-215
Antimatter....Pages 216-219
Particle Decays....Pages 220-223
Feynman Diagrams....Pages 224-227
The Strong Interaction....Pages 228-231
The Weak Interaction....Pages 232-235
E=mc²....Pages 236-239
The Higgs Mechanism....Pages 240-243
The Structure of the Proton....Pages 244-247
Particle Accelerators....Pages 248-251
Front Matter....Pages 202-203
Particle Detectors....Pages 252-255
Cosmic Radiation....Pages 256-259
Neutrino Oscillations....Pages 260-263
Radiation Therapy....Pages 264-267
Front Matter....Pages 268-269
Exotic Matter....Pages 270-273
Before the Big Bang....Pages 274-277
Quantum Gravity....Pages 278-281
Black Hole Evaporation....Pages 282-285
Wormholes....Pages 286-289
Tachyons....Pages 290-293
Warp Drive....Pages 294-297
Supersymmetry....Pages 298-301
String Theory....Pages 302-305
Extra Dimensions....Pages 306-309
Many Worlds....Pages 310-313
The End of the Universe....Pages 314-319