Reviews
At 50, my biggest regret is that I should have studied math harder. Liberal arts really is difficult.
I like learning and mastering new things, so the book I decided to take on this time was The Easiest Science Class in the World: Antiparticles, from the series about Nobel laureates’ original papers. As soon as I saw the unfamiliar and difficult word “antiparticle,” I thought, “I have to try this,” and opened the book. Oh my gosh! The moment I saw all the mathematical equations, I wondered if they were an alien language and often shut the book. Still, I had opened it, so I slowly turned the
[Review] The Easiest Science Class in the World: Antiparticles. I chose this book because I wanted to learn about antiparticles in an accessible way. The title says it is the easiest, which gave me the courage to try. I noticed an endorsement by a physics professor at Kyung Hee University’s College of Science, followed by another professor’s recommendation saying the book helps readers happily begin studying quantum mechanics. Those endorsements made me more interested. A science book based on
We live in an advanced society shaped by scientific and technological progress. Recently, AI has developed rapidly and is being used in many fields around the world, sometimes at a pace that ordinary people find hard to keep up with. I recommend that students read popular science books to discover what they want to do, and that adults read them to understand and adapt to a society saturated with technology, even if science is not their major. I had hoped to follow scientists’ footsteps in a
Jeong Wan-sang: The Easiest Science Lesson in the World: Antiparticles
Step into the paper that connected quantum mechanics with special relativity and predicted a new particle! This is the eighth book in the “Learn Science Through Nobel Laureates’ Original Papers” series. It explores the paper on the Dirac equation, published in 1928 by the brilliant physicist Paul Dirac, known as Britain’s Einstein. The Dirac equation has two major meanings: it linked quantum theory and relativity, which had developed separately, and its solutions predicted the existence of antiparticles. This greatly expanded the foundations of modern physics. In The Easiest Science Class in the World: Antiparticles, Professor Jeong and Physics Boy explain the background theories, the paper itself, and later developments through an engaging one-on-one conversation. The book also shares behind-the-scenes stories about scientists who advanced these theories. Chapter 5 is especially fascinating as it follows the process of hypothesizing a new particle, naming it, drawing inferences, and facing objections. The book includes many equations, which may seem difficult, but they allow it to explore the theories in depth. An appendix includes the original English texts of the Pauli and Dirac papers discussed in the book, as well as a list of Nobel Prize winners in physics, inviting readers to explore further.
Korean title: 세상에서 가장 쉬운 과학 수업: 반입자
Korean author: 정완상
Korean publisher: 성림원북스
ISBN-13: 9791193357286
Reviews
At 50, my biggest regret is that I should have studied math harder. Liberal arts really is difficult.
I like learning and mastering new things, so the book I decided to take on this time was The Easiest Science Class in the World: Antiparticles, from the series about Nobel laureates’ original papers. As soon as I saw the unfamiliar and difficult word “antiparticle,” I thought, “I have to try this,” and opened the book. Oh my gosh! The moment I saw all the mathematical equations, I wondered if they were an alien language and often shut the book. Still, I had opened it, so I slowly turned the
[Review] The Easiest Science Class in the World: Antiparticles. I chose this book because I wanted to learn about antiparticles in an accessible way. The title says it is the easiest, which gave me the courage to try. I noticed an endorsement by a physics professor at Kyung Hee University’s College of Science, followed by another professor’s recommendation saying the book helps readers happily begin studying quantum mechanics. Those endorsements made me more interested. A science book based on
We live in an advanced society shaped by scientific and technological progress. Recently, AI has developed rapidly and is being used in many fields around the world, sometimes at a pace that ordinary people find hard to keep up with. I recommend that students read popular science books to discover what they want to do, and that adults read them to understand and adapt to a society saturated with technology, even if science is not their major. I had hoped to follow scientists’ footsteps in a
