
Enjoy our Universe consists of 37 short chapters accounting for the serendipitous evolution of basic science in the last 150 years, roughly starting with the Faraday–Maxwell unification and concluding with the discovery of the Higgs boson and of gravitational waves. While going through the “fun” of our universe, the author describes the conceptual and empirical triumphs of classical and quantum field theories without indulging in excessive historic or technical details. Those who had the chance to attend lectures or talks given by De Rujula will recognise the “parentheses” (i.e. swift digressions) that he literally opens and closes in his presentations with gigantic brackets on the slides. A rather original glossary is included at the end of the text for the benefit of general readers.
Authors: De Rújula, Alvaro
Publication year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Number of pages: 202