Both number of works and adepts are increasing. While on Solvay's congresses we can still count all participating scientists, today (15.09.2003) “Philadelphia's (ISI) list)” shows::
51 of 12957015 documents matched the query
It is difficult even for scientists to read 13 million of manuscripts.
So imagine how much more difficult this task is for journalists! That's way, popular magazines are full of bacterias from Mars, intelligent beings in the Space and 11 dimensions of space-time, with 7 of them hidden or folded around like a carpet.
But if we asked of the visitors, why tetanus is so much dangerous, why invar does not changes its dimensions and which are the modes of the Wilberforce pendulum - most of them would try to avoid the subjects.
So, the task of this exhibition is to show, that Physics is a still written book, in statu nascendi, and not a closed Science. Therefore, the more simplifications and omissions are in these texts - better it is. Important is to fill the gap between the "big Science" and the "man on the street", which otherwise is populated by green (or gray?) beings from Mars.
Authors do not pretend to be a specialists in all topics here presented. Moreover, they hope that numerous simplifications and errors will invite true specialists to organize NEXT exhibitions of this type.
Grzegorz Karwasz, Tomasz Wróblewski
Authors used different texts, both specialistic and general science (Science, Nature) literature.
In particular “Encyklopedia Fizyki Współczesnej”, PWN, Warszawa 1982, still is a surprising and profound source of knowledge. We would like to tkanks to all cited (and due to lack of space - non cited) authors!
