2024-10-06 16:37:22
INTERVIEW – In a book on the records of physics, the researcher specializing in scientific dissemination helps us discover the motivations behind this hunt for extreme values.
Julien Bobroff is a professor at Paris-Saclay University. Fundamental physics researcher, for about ten years he has been oriented towards dissemination and leads an original research group on the topic of different physics. He published his fourth work, Extreme physics (Albin Michel), in which he presents eleven of them “records that push the limits of what is possible”.
THE FIGARO. – Why did you choose to start from records to talk about physics?
Julien BOBROFF. – It all started with a question I asked myself. What is the coldest place? the hottest? the most pressurized? We soon realize that it is in the physics laboratories that we find the most extreme, and by far the greatest, conditions. A temperature 1 million times higher or lower than natural temperature, a magnetic field or pressure 1 million times more intense. So I wondered if sometimes there were stories to tell around these records…
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