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Clifford V. Johnson
Dialogues
Conversations About the Nature of the Universe
2018. 246 S. 248 col ill. 268 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MIT PRESS 2018
ISBN: 0-262-03723-8 (0262037238)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-262-03723-5 (9780262037235)
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Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu, along with topics like politics, books, sports, or the latest prestige cable drama. Conversations about science, he tells us, shouldn´t be left to the experts. In The Dialogues, Johnson invites us to eavesdrop on a series of nine conversations, in graphic-novel form - written and drawn by Johnson - about "the nature of the universe." The conversations take place all over the world, in museums, on trains, in restaurants, in what may or may not be Freud´s favorite coffeehouse. The conversationalists are men, women, children, experts, and amateur science buffs. The topics of their conversations range from the science of cooking to the multiverse and string theory. The graphic form is especially suited for physics; one drawing can show what it would take many words to explain.
Clifford V. Johnson, Professor of Physics at the University of Southern California, gives many public lectures about his research and appears often in television documentaries as an expert. He has been science advisor for several movies and television series, including Marvel´s Thor: Ragnarok and the National Geographic Channel´s Genius.