How to Survive a Nuclear Attack?

My last post about nuclear bombs and explosions led me to do more research about nuclear explosions and attacks. After all, it's a very fascinating subject, especially these days, when a nuclear war looks more like a fantasy than a reality. But what if...?

What if a nuclear war actually took place these days? Would we be ready? While looking for an answer to this question I found a great lecture by Irwin Redlener, which I would like to share. Enjoy:

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How to Prevent Wars?

Today I asked myself an interesting question - why are there wars? As you might think I thought of hundreds of reasons why there are wars in our society. Different political systems, different religions, lack of resources... the list can go on. However, I think a more important question is how to prevent wars.

There is a saying that until there will be people in our planet, there will be wars. I actually believe this, but I think it is possible to prevent global world wars in the future. You see people have something deep in their minds and nature, which makes them fight. The fact that every person is different means that there are many various belief systems, religions and political systems, which can be a direct or an indirect cause of many conflicts and wars. Fortunately by educating our society, making it more tolerant and simply smarter, we can take the first steps in the long journey to world peace.

Let's just think about this for a moment. If we understood people of the middle east better, maybe we would think about them differently. Maybe, if we knew more about their religion, culture and political situation, we wouldn't be in war with them. Maybe if they knew more about the western world, democracy and capitalism, they wouldn't think of us as an enemies. Fortunately, by educating our society we can spread tolerance all across the world. By teaching people about different cultures and religions, we can make our world into a brighter place. After all, education is our road to a brighter world.

"But what about science?"- you might ask, after all this is a science blog. Science, like education, is also an answer to many problems of our modern society. I'm sure that if you read newspapers, you have noticed that our society has many problems with resources, global warming, air, water and overall nature pollution. Resources, or more precisely the lack of resources, can be one the major cause of the future wars. Fortunately, even at this moment, thousands of scientists are working on these problems.

Science as well as education is one of the greatest answers to many problems of our world. Only by educating our society, we can develop it and make it a more peaceful place. Only by education people all around the world can become more tolerant and find out more about foreign cultures and religions. So as Vladimir Lenin once said:"Learn, learn and once again learn!".




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So You Want to Learn Physics (The Fun Way)

These days when internet is easily accessible, it's easy to learn anything you like from home. Internet, being the biggest virtual library, gives you an opportunity to learn various science fields as well. Today I will show you some nice books that you can easily find on the internet. These books helped me to learn various subjects an get better at high school.

If you want to learn physics you should start from simple high school level physics, however there are some very nice books, which can teach you the basics of quantum mechanics, string theory, general and special theories of relativity and other.

There's a very nice book about time travel, which covers many aspects of general relativity, special relativity, quantum mechanics and some history of physics. This book is called Black Holes Wormholes and Time Machines by Jim Al-Khalili. It's a simple to read book that contains basically no maths, so it can be read by anyone.

Another great book for those, who want to learn the basics of modern physics is Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. This book also covers the basics of Einstein's theories, quantum mechanics and some history of physics. The main focus of the book is string theory.

After reading these books, you could find Stephen Hawking's books useful. The most popular of his books are The Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell.  Both of the books cover a wide range of physics subjects, are easy to read and contain some valuable knowledge.

The series of books called For Dummies contain a lot of useful books, basically about anything. You can find many useful books like The String Theory for Dummies, Physics for Dummies and so on.  I highly recommend these books for starters, because they're easy to use and contain all that a starter needs.

Well that's it for now. Thanks for reading. I hope these books, will be useful for you. Please subscribe or follow my blog if you like it.

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