The Art of Physics: How Science Explains the Chaos, Contradictions, and Unpredictability of Life

People are messy. Science is methodical. Could ideas from physics allow us to solve our most urgent problems?

For readers of Malcom Gladwell and Bill Bryson comes a book about the hidden, surprising, and sometimes beautiful ways in which ideas from physics are being applied to important questions facing our lives and society today; questions so complex or personal that they are normally considered beyond the realms of science.

For some of life's biggest questions and conundrums, the laws of physics offer new perspectives. Drawing on cutting-edge research and eye-opening insights from quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, chaos and complexity theory, materials science and more, The Art of Physics shows that science offers a rich vocabulary for tackling the chaos, contradictions and unpredictability that often seem to be the hallmarks of daily life. Not only does physics explain many aspects of our experience, it transforms them.