The secrets of the matter

With examples and metaphors, quoting experiments and practical applications, the author illustrates, in a simple way, the structure and the properties of the matter all around us examined through the most modern scientific theories. The book analyzes the microscopic complex world, governed by the laws of quantistic mechanical, the Universe and its birth, the ipercompressed matter present in some stars, the vacuum, the most common materials all around us and supertechnological ones as nitinol. A mine of information and curiosity, characterized by many levels of reading.