Why do polished stones look wet? How does the Twin Paradox work? What if Jupiter were a star?
How can we be sure that pi never repeats? How does a quantum computer break encryption?
Discover the answers to these and other profound physics questions! This fascinating book
presents a collection of articles based on conversations and correspondences between the author
and complete strangers about physics and math. The author a researcher in mathematical physics
responds to dozens of questions posed by inquiring minds from all over the world ranging from
the everyday to the profound.Rather than unnecessarily complex explanations mired in mysterious
terminology and symbols the reader is presented with the reasoning experiments and
mathematics in a casual conversational and often comical style. Neither over-simplified nor
over-technical the lucid and entertaining writing will guide the reader from each innocent
question to a better understanding of the weirdand beautiful universe around us. Advance praise
for Do Colors Exist?: Every high school science teacher should have a copy of this book. The
individual articles offer enrichment to those students who wish to go beyond a typical 'dry
curriculum'. The articles are very fun. I probably laughed out loud every 2-3 minutes. This is
not easy to do. In fact my children are interested in the book because they heard me laughing
so much. - Ken Ono Emory University
