The first Kickstarter campaign is finished unsuccessfully. Now I'm preparing the relaunch.
Once in the evening on a big conference, we played cards with my friends. And an idea came to my head - since I draw a little, why not to use this and to draw a deck of cards dedicated to the most important domains of modern fundamental physics?
So, why cards? Because I believe that the heart of education is repetition. When you read a book, you read it once and even if you haven't understood something you hardly return back to reread the heavy chapters (by the way, I plan to write a book to distribute with the card deck too). With cards it is different. Each card contains a simple picture that illustrates a physical idea. And each card is titled. So when you play, you see the drawings, you read titles and like this, you understand better and better. After all, the whole deck forms a harmonious picture of modern physics in your head. I've chosen 4 domains: cosmology for spades, astrophysics for clubs, high energy physics for hearts and quantum mechanics for diamonds. The choice is probably not ideal. All the domains of physics are heavily overlapped. However, since my object is to educate, I believe this division is acceptable. I also had to neglect all the applied physics and all the physics, mixed with other disciplines, like biophysics or physical chemistry. I had to - otherwise the project would become too heavy and this would have an undesired effect on comprehensibility. So the black suits are for "large-scale" physics - stars, galaxies and the whole Universe. And the red suits are for "small-scale" physics - what's going on at the subatomic scales. Surprisingly, physics on these scales, although the scales are absolutely different, have a lot in common. There will be also two jokers which will illustrate the theories to fuse the large and small scale physics. The black joker is for the string theory, which uses the idea of general relativity - main theory on large scales - and applies it to the small scales. The red joker is the quantum gravitation - the theory which explains gravity (large scales) with the idea of quantum used on the subatomic scales. Again, the deck will be distributed along with a book, where each card will be explained. Last November I launched the crowdfunding campaign for this project, but it didn't reach the goal. Now I am preparing the relaunch of the campaign.
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