Big subjects, explained from the ground up in plain language. Each piece starts from nothing, assumes no background, and carries on until the subject is covered.
Physics
The Physics of Very Small Things
Quantum mechanics from the ground up. Why hot objects, glowing metal and the atom itself broke nineteenth-century physics, the rules that replaced it, and how those rules explain chemistry, computer chips, starlight and the particles inside the proton. Ends with entanglement, quantum computers and the questions physicists still cannot answer.