Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance

The hidden elegance in everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles.

Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life—crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile—but looks at them with a physicist's eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane physical mechanisms. In six chapters—Builders, Creating Shapes, Building with Threads, From Sand to Glass, Matter in Motion, and Fractures—the authors present brief stories, set in locales ranging from ...