- Will you be saved if you jump upwards, at the last moment, in a falling elevator?
- How do smells find your nose?
- How cold can it get?
- Why is snow white?
- Where do socks that get lost in the washing machine go?
- How can you clean foggy windows in your car?
- If you stopped dusting, how long would it take for dust to bury you?
- Can you generate electricity from a lemon?
But did Einstein have a barber? No matter which photo of him you look at, you will surely think that the barbershop was as familiar to him as quarks and neutrons are to you.
However, this book is about everything that Einstein could have discussed with his barber, things that, although they would have been very simple for him, for the rest of us they may be brain teasers.
Robert L. Wolke, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, explains in a understandable and entertaining way that science is everything we see, hear, and feel, and one does not need to be an Einstein or even a scientist to wonder why we see, hear, and feel things. The answers are often so easy that they will surely make us exclaim, "Impossible! But it was so simple!"