The Quantum Universe

This article was published by the University of Manchester. It's about a book that looks very interesting...

The Quantum Universe brings together two University of Manchester authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we be sure that this theory is good?

The bizarre behaviour of the atoms and energy that make up the universe has led to some very woolly pronouncements on the nature of all interconnectedness. Here, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw from the School of Physics and Astronomy give us the real science, and reveal the profound theories that allow for concrete, yet astonishing, predictions about the world. It is our most up-to-date picture of reality so far.

And also at the end there is this link, I hope you enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903-PyV6Oe8

An admirable woman.

When you see the stars, have you ever thought about how they were created? Or maybe, how they were made?

Well, maybe, it is not a big question to you. But… there was a woman, who since she was a child, thought about this every day, especially at nights.

This was not all, she lived in a small town named “Apocoville”, a time ago. She always used to dream she walk over the moon. Fortunately, for her, her parents were not poor, so with a lot of effort, she could go to the school. And she became a scientist.

During years of research in the MIT, she could finally made a discovery, based on the colors of the telescope, she realized there were traces of water in the “Nebulas of Lira”.

So, she decided make people know this discovery, but when she was in her conferences, she realized that the people didn’t understand her, even worse, they were not interested in. In that moment she took other way in her life, she started to teach what science really is, maybe because of her books, or maybe the way she used to talk about science (that indescribable passion).

I know what you’re thinking “did she go to the moon?” Not, but I can tell you dear reader, that this woman Elizabeth Marlon, made something bigger, she was the inspiration to the new generations to make science, not just learn it.

And by this way, she became an admirable woman.