1.6. Let’s Go!

I’m an experimental particle physicist and I’ve been teaching physics to physics majors and especially non-science students for four decades and I have fun doing it. I’m lucky enough to be continuously supported by you and your families through grants from The National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy for my research for 45 years and I’m grateful. In some ways, this book and course are in partial repayment for that support. Thanks.

I’ve never met anyone who didn’t share my curiosity in wanting to know how the universe works. Even after a lifetime immersed in these matters daily, I’m in awe at how beautiful it all is and how lucky we are to know as much as we do. I enjoy talking about it and teaching some of the details.

You can find more about me at about me and you’ll get to know me a little as I tell you stories in the lessons that follow.

I’m not stuffy. I’ve tried to write here like I teach, which is informally and without pretense. I’m deadly serious about the science and passionate about the subject matter. But I also like to have fun and I’ll make you smile every once in a while as we work to grasp complex ideas. Stay with me, and you’ll be able to explain Special Relativity at parties just like I can!

Wait. That may not be a selling point.