No Wonder You Wonder! Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries
This book explores and explains scientific mysteries and principles, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and an abundance of illustrations. Chapters are short, but give an understanding of technology and science not available elsewhere. Questions include:
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NO WONDER YOU WONDER! Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries
No Wonder You Wonder!
Claude Phipps Illustrations by Friedelwolf Wicke
No Wonder You Wonder! Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries
Claude Phipps Photonic Associates, LLC. Santa Fe, NM, USA Illustrations by Friedelwolf Wicke Vienna, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-21679-9 ISBN 978-3-319-21680-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21680-5
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This book is dedicated to Dr. Ray Kidder, who taught me that complex science can be expressed simply as he explained inertial confinement fusion with a few equations on the whiteboard, during my first week on the job at Livermore. Sorèze, May 11, 2015
Acknowledgments
Sincere thanks to Ho Ying Fan, my patient and careful assistant editor at Springer USA who shepherded it through the approval process, and to my editor, Chris Coughlin, and to the Springer organization for entertaining this unusual project among their technical books. Even more special thanks to my friend and artist Mag. Friedelwolf Wicke, whose work appears throughout No Wonder You Wonder, with his special blend of wry humor. This book would have been much more dry and colorless without his work! Thanks to Mr. Robert Schatzkin of W. W. Norton and Ms. Diana Neuwirth of Universal Uclick for making reasonable deals for the two art works whose use I paid for. Thanks to those who gave me permission to use their works. Thanks to my wise companion Shanti Bannwart for comments and encouragement along the way, and for being my first reader, never pulling punches when she didn’t like something. Thanks to Hon. Fred Boettcher, a highschool chum, for his interest in the project as a way to turn k
