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[Ebook]^^ The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of
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[Ebook]^^ The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
(The MIT Press) Read
[Ebook]^^ The
Dialogues:
Conversations
about the Nature
of the Universe
(The MIT Press)
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Best Science Books of 2018! How do you discuss big, hair-hurting ideas
in a user friendly way? Make a graphic novel about them. For me, the
most original, creative and magical science book of 2017. Yes, it was
last year's book. But I didn't read it until this year. And I cannot
leave it out.―Ira Flatow, Science FridayReaders of The Dialogues will
likely appreciate Johnson's unique approach to starting a conversation
about physics with a broader audience, and they'll admire his passion
for the subject matter.―Physics Today...does a fantastic job of
explaining complex concepts in a way that's not only easy to understand
but also pleasant to follow. But what really sets it apart is the sheer
quality of the writing. He effortlessly blends the natural, down-toearth
curiosity within us all with a patient knowledge that comes with
decades of study.―ZME ScienceThere are a great many unsubtle ways to
address diversity as an issue of social justice, from polemic
proclamations to crude finger-pointing to passive complaint. All of them
are, in my view, invariably inferior to what is perhaps the only
effective approach: Simply enacting, without fuss and fanfare, a juster
alternative. That is what Johnson ― a black Englishman himself ―
accomplishes by populating his panels with characters of varied races,
genders, and nationalities, who interpolate between the roles of
explainer and explainee without any dominant pattern of
authority.―BrainpickingsJohnson explicity rejects the notion that some
science is for uniquely talented abstract thinkers, arguing that the
questions that theoretical physicists explore are not too complicated
for the rest of us, and are relevant to all. And he proves it in his
book: His characters are adults and kids who ponder how rice grains
appear to multiply when cooked and how to calculate the number of jelly
beans in a jar, and discuss the notion of a unified 'theory of
everything' and the meaning of life and death.―QuartzThe DialoguesÂ
illustrates how science can be a topic of everyday conversation for
anyone.―CBCJohnson's new book... is a penetrating exploration of
questions ― that are both ancient and modern ― about the nature of
the universe. I found The Dialogues to be compelling, and the use of the
graphic novel format only deepened that impression.16―Adam Frank
, NPRThere is nothing new under the sun. And Johnson has merely revived
an old method of presenting scientific ideas. As Nobel prizewinner Frank
Wilczek points out in the foreword, scientists – most notably Galileo

– presented their ideas in dialogue between debating characters on
which readers could eavesdrop. And, given the chance, IÂ bet that many
of us would love the chance to quiz an Einstein down the pub. Since that
is rarely, if at all, possible, The Dialogues is the next best
thi17ng.―Times Higher EducationThe author shows himself to be a highly
talented graphic artist as well as being a distinguished
theoretician.―The SpectatorShort list for Best Book of the Year 2018!
This non-fiction graphic novel uses the teacher–pupil relationship as
a format of discourse on complex topics in physics, ranging from
inflation and relativity to the philosophy of science and discussions of
experimentation and geometry. The artist and author is physicist
Clifford Johnson and his book is The Dialogues. Over the course of 11
conversations, each intricately drawn and written by Johnson (who is a
self-taught artist), you will meet a host of characters in a variety of
locations, all of whom are attempting to better fathom the fundamental
laws of our universe.―PHYSICS WORLD Read more This is a fantastic
book―entertaining, informative, enjoyable, and thought-provoking.―A.
Zee, Kavil Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California,
Santa Barbara; author of Fearful Symmetry and Quantum Field Theory in a
NutshellTwo superheroes walk into a natural history museum―what
happens after that will have you thinking and talking for a long time to
come. Clifford V. Johnson's The Dialogues joins a select few examples of
recent texts, such as Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, Larry
Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe, Nick Sousanis's Unflattening,
Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland, or Joe Sacco's Palestine, which use
the affordances of graphic storytelling as pedagogical tools for
changing the ways we think about the world around us. Johnson displays a
solid grasp of the craft of comics, demonstrating how this medium can be
used to represent different understandings of the relationship between
time and space, questions central to his native field of physics. He
takes advantage of the observational qualities of contemporary graphic
novels to explore the place of scientific thinking in our everyday
lives.―Henry Jenkins, Media Scholar, University of Southern
California; author of Convergence Culture: Where Old a