Construir el mundo

The colossal development achieved by chemistry, physics and astrophysics has provided us with a deep knowledge of the world and an unsuspected ability to build technological devices. But we also become increasingly ignorant of our inner nature. A crossroads from which it is difficult to get out if we do not learn to clearly distinguish between what is material and what is immaterial. Enrique Gracián uses the concept of "construction" to conceive a game, as simple as it is ingenious, that reveals to us with astonishing clarity the internal logic of chemistry and physics: how the world is built. A game with well-defined rules in which only a few pieces are involved, how to put them together and the ultimate goal. Through an unusual scientific dissemination effort, the author traces a route that begins with elementary particles, continues with the elements of the periodic table and ascends to the planets, stars and galaxies, finally, in the journey of return, in our inner world, where the intangible, emotions, dreams, memory and beliefs reside. Building the world is not just a "quick course in physics and astrophysics", it is above all an amazing journey through science in which the reader will discover that the dark matter of the universe and our unconscious have unsuspected parallels, that our sense of Loneliness responds to a physical reality, that the gravitational fields that govern the planets have a clear parallel in our human relationships, or that stellar geography is as essential as Earth's geography to understand ourselves and the world.