January 24, 2019
Emily Coates, associate professor of theater studies and of directing, and Sarah Demers, the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics
(Yale University Press)
From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides — a former member of New York City Ballet, Emily Coates, and a CERN particle physicist, Sarah Demers — show how their respective disciplines can help us to understand both the quotidian and the deepest questions about the universe.