Summer listening: everyday physics

Summer is here, and for me, this means: a lot of time for books and audiobooks 🙂

If you’re like me and are looking for a bit of summer listening, our latest issue of “Erzähl mir alles: Physik” (Tell me everything: physics) might be just the thing.

In "Von Früh bis Spät: Physik des Alltags" (From dawn to dusk: the physics of everyday life), we view a completely ordinary day through a physics lens. We start the day thermodynamically (think warm shower, cold tiles, and hot coffee), tackle the physics of your work commute, and eventually wind down with a plate of mathematically parametrised pasta. In the end, you’ll know what the world looks like when every button you press and every handle you turn becomes an energy flow or a heat transfer.

If you prefer your holidays a bit more spaced out, then how about drifting off into extra dimensions? In our previous issue "Dimensionen – in wie vielen leben wir?" (In how many dimensions do we actually live?), we visit two-dimensional Flatland, bend time à la Einstein, and end up somewhere near the ten dimensions of string theory, rolled up like a cosmic cinnamon bun.

Incidentally, this issue is partly inspired by one of my all-time favourite summer books as a teenager: Flatterland by Ian Stewart. It was a lot of fun to return to this book and channel a bit of the enthusiasm that spurred me into studying physics in the first place 🙂

Give the audiobooks a listen, and let me know which you prefer. Both are out now on Audible.