Physics is Fun

Title	Authors	Page
Editorial	ZofiaGołąb-Meyer	1
On the Track of Modern Physics	Grzegorz Karwasz	4
How do we know what we see is a black hole?	Bogusz Kinasiewicz	6
Neutrino – a particle of the 21^st century?	Krzysztof Fiałkowski	14
Go photonics, go!	Wojciech Gawlik	21
Why is photosynthesis interesting?	Květoslava Burda	26
A Vampire Story: Science, Folklore and Beyond	Dorottya Bakό and Ewa Gudowska-Nowak	35
Heuristic proof of the Theorem of Borsuk and Ulam	Theo W. Ruijgrok	40
Dendrites in Nature and in Computer	Jerzy Karczmarczuk	43
King Midas’ funeral feast	Grzegorz Karwasz	50
The theory of Brownian Motion: A Hundred Years’ Anniversary	Paweł F. Góra	52
Albert Einstein – an icon of the 20^th century – some myths	Zofia Gołąb-Meyer	58
Questions asked by high school students to Professor Koshiba,the Nobel laureate 2002	Zofia Gołąb-Meyer	62
Questions asked by high school students to Prof. Roy Glauber, the Nobel laureate 2005	Zofia Gołąb-Meyer	64
Albert Einstein and Ignacy Mościcki’s, Patent Application	Zofia Gołąb-Meyer	66
The egg race	Marcin and his parents Anna and Tomasz Dohnalik	69
Mysterious eggs	Aneta Szczygielska, Jerzy Jarosz	70
Lion Cub – a physics competition for junior high and high school students	Piotr Goldstein, Adam Smólski	72
Polish Physicists in Philately	Jerzy Bartke	74
The Kindergarten of Physics – where science meets youth	Dagmara Sokołowska	78
First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics	Waldemar Gorzkowski	80
GIREP		82
Strong – poem	Marko Budisa	83
Science in the Jagellonian University Museum	Maciej Kluza	84

Special "Foton" issue - Spring 2006

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