Tiziana discovered physics at age four in Pisa. She was told that Galileo had performed his famous experiments by dropping balls from the leaning tower, which sounded like great fun. The same day she found out about energy, atoms and sub-atomic particles when she met her cousin Luigi, a nuclear engineer. She was fascinated. A few years later, Tiziana herself became a nuclear engineer. Then she went on to study, for her PhD, the atomic structure of materials using an electron microscope. So, for many years, electrons were her best friends at work.
The idea for this book came to Tiziana when, for several days, she found herself exposed to beams of photons and electrons in a radiotherapy department. Once again, she was very glad to be helped out by her old friends. She wondered why, when they are so important, particles and quantum physics are not mentioned in school. She is not alone: the creator of the video below claims that physics curricula in the United States fail to address the most exciting developments made since 1865, which are so relevant to our own lives. In fact, this happens all over the world, and goes hand-in-hand with the misconception that physics is hard and cannot be explained without advanced mathematics.
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Courtesy of MinutePhysics