A hardcore physics book that attracts and suits readers of all ages! Especially suitable for students!
Do you know what time is?
How did string theory originate?
Do parallel universes exist?
Is it possible to create a real lightsaber?
What was AI's first kiss like?
What are gravitational waves?
What's inside a black hole?
What is ball lightning?
Why do we need leap years?
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Physicist, popular video blogger, and regular contributor to the "The Loft" project, Dmitry Pobedinsky, answers these questions that might stump any of us, in an accessible way for everyone.

"The Loft" project is a science education project under TASS, Russia's largest news agency. The "The Loft" team writes daily scientific articles for its 100,000 readers, presents interesting popular science lectures, exhibitions, books, and films, demonstrates experiments, and answers various scientific questions about the world around us.

[Author] Dmitry Pobedinsky
Russian physicist and teacher, popular video blogger with 700k subscribers, and regular contributor to the "The Loft" project. Creator of the YouTube channel "Pobedinsky's Physics."

Introduction

1. Humans – The Pinnacle of Evolution!
1.1 How do muscles grow?
1.2 We are all a little colorblind!
1.3 Why does helium change your voice?
1.4 What percentage of vacuum are humans made of?
1.5 Why doesn't the heart symbol look like a heart?
1.6 Why do mirrors swap left and right but not up and down?

2. Our Little Brothers
2.1 Could we fly like birds?
2.2 Why are insects small?
2.3 Why do fireflies glow?
2.4 Why are animals symmetrical?

3. The Mysteries of Electricity
3.1 How does electric current kill?
3.2 What would happen if electricity disappeared?
3.3 Nikola Tesla: Genius or Charlatan?
3.4 What is ball lightning?
3.5 Five Major Misconceptions About Lightning

4. Our Home, Our Earth
4.1 Why is the sky blue?
4.2 How are auroras created?
4.3 Dispersing clouds before parades
4.4 Weather folklore: Myth or truth?
4.5 Why is hot weather so annoying?
4.6 The whole truth about diamonds

5. Cosmic Distances
5.1 How would a person die in space without a spacesuit?
5.2 What would happen if gravity disappeared?
5.3 Five ways to achieve weightlessness
5.4 What is a black hole? What's inside?
5.4.1 If a black hole has no light, why does it attract light?
5.5 How far can we see with a telescope?
5.6 Why do we need leap years?
5.7 Pluto research (data up to July 2015)

6. Only Physics, Only Hardcore
6.1 What is time?
6.2 String theory for beginners
6.3 Relativity for beginners
6.4 Levitation: The real method
6.5 Can you see an atom individually?
6.5.1 How to get an atom the size of a grapefruit?
6.6 What is the Higgs boson?
6.7 Is there a limit to the number of protons and neutrons in a nucleus?
6.8 What are gravitational waves?
6.9 How exactly does radiation kill?

7. Technology
7.1 How to fool airport scanners?
7.2 Are we being tracked by GPS?
7.3 How does 3D work in cinemas?
7.4 Why are electric guitars different from acoustic guitars?
7.5 What was AI's first kiss like?
7.6 How to fool a lie detector?
7.7 How does MRI work?
7.8 What can an Apple Watch do?

8. Amazing Things
8.1 How to make a real Jedi lightsaber?
8.2 Is time travel possible?
8.3 How to become invisible?
8.4 The whole truth about teleportation
8.5 What is the mass of a thought?
8.6 Parallel universes