ALICE QUEBRA CABEÇA by Adriana Peliano and Jorge Dutra Freitas through the words of @Semperluxus (from instagram)

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 @Semperluxus is an enigmagic nexialist and book collector who presents to us amazing and fantastic books, making comments that challenges our wildest imagination.

 

Brazilian Brainteaser Alice illustrated by Adriana Peliano @adriana_peliano & Jorge Dutra Freitas, published by @sociedade_lewis_carroll_brasil in 2022

This limited edition of 100 copies was created by a brilliantly creative team: the President of the Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil, & her precocious five year old nephew, Jorge. 

Jorge took 150 Tangram geometric pieces in 6 different colors & shapes, & assembled them to form the story of Wonderland, based on strictly scientific principles:

1: Cover: Alice is Marie Skłodowska Curie, the physicist & chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, & the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields, Physics & Chemistry

 

 

 

 

 

 

2: Rabbit running with his pocketwatch portrays "The Unreality of Time", the best-known philosophical work of the Cambridge idealist J. M. E. McTaggart, who argued that time is unreal because our descriptions of time are either contradictory, circular, or insufficient

 

3: Alice falling down the rabbit hole portrays Newton's law of Universal Gravitation from his "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" (1687), expressed in the equation: F = G mM / r^2

 

 

4: Alice growing large in Rabbit's house refutes the Law of Conservation of Mass, which states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter & energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time

5: Left: the blue Caterpillar sits on his red mushroom

Right: Alice shrinks to her feet, her hands hold pieces of the mushroom that minaturized her.

According to the Science Fiction writer & polymath Isaac Asimov:

"Miniaturization doesn't actually make sense unless you miniaturize the very atoms which build up matter. Otherwise a tiny brain in a human the size of an insect, composed of normal atoms, is composed of too few atoms for the miniaturized human to be any more intelligent than the insect. Also, miniaturizing atoms is impossible according to the rules of quantum mechanics."

 

6: Alice's neck stretches up to the sky where the mother bird flies. The neck expanding so much is a portrayal of the Hubble–Lemaître law of the expansion of the universe, of galaxies moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance.

Formula: v = Ho d

v = velocity of a galaxy, in km/s

Ho = Hubble Constant, measured in km/s/Mpc

d = distance of a galaxy, in Mpc (mega-parsecs)

7: Cheshire Cat's grin exemplifies the Schrödinger's cat experiment in quantum physics: the grin is both there, & not there.

Erwin Schrödinger suggested it in 1935, in reaction to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics:

A cat, with a Geiger counter, and a bit of poison in a sealed box. Quantum mechanics says that after a while, the cat is both alive and dead. A person looking into the box will either find the cat alive or dead, however it is assumed to be both alive and dead before you look into the box.

 

8: Tea Party with Alice, Dormouse, Hare & Hatter. Boiling water for tea involves the change from a liquid phase to a gaseous phase, according to the First Law of Thermodynamics which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Boiling is the process by which a liquid turns into a vapor when it is heated to its boiling point. The change from a liquid phase to a gaseous phase occurs when the vapor pressure of the liquid is equal to the atmospheric pressure exerted on the liquid. Boiling is a physical change and molecules are not chemically altered during the process.

9: The Queen of Hearts shouts "off with their heads" to demonstrate Nuclear Fission, in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller nuclei, producing gamma photons, as we see with the decapitated heads producing blood.

Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered on Monday 19 December 1938, by German chemist Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann

 

10: Alice plays croquet using a flamingo to show Newton's Second Law of Motion: Force equals mass times acceleration: f=ma (the harder you hit the ball, the faster it will move)

11: The flying cards are electrons colliding with other particles inside the atom, demonstrating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which states that we cannot know both the position and speed of a particle with perfect accuracy