I mean lots of the comments in this thread exemplify the need for this book assuming it is well written enough to achieve its purpose [0]<p>Take for example the dismissal that "waves are just a concept/model/way of describing the universe that is useful and pretty accurate for many purposes".<p>Yes, this is true, but the wonder is to be found <i>in the universe</i>, not in the model, and the model provides a path to that wonder to be found approaching true understanding. Understanding with one may practically profit, and idk motivational salience to see connections where they are present.<p>Like, if you stop and think about it, isn't it like totally nuts that light, "heat", "electricity", etc. just smear out into one another at the right frequency, and that you can predict it? That you can ring all the nuclei in a human's body just like ringing a bell, listen to the tone, and turn that into a like a 3d image of tumors and crap? [1] And, this beauty / intricacy / whatever collides into the need to eat and clean up poop and so forth [2] -- And we end up with microwave ovens used thrice daily until broken and trashed, and relegate the concepts themselves into "just"s, because they are ordinary.<p>And if this sense of holistic appreciation for the universe is more cultivated in more people we'd see more cool stuff or live in a better world or something.<p>[0] idk, helping the reader develop a sense of ... awe, <i>better</i> intuitive understanding (because people have it no matter how wrong), connection, higher order consequences, all embedded in a practical context or something.<p>[1] NMR/MRI more or less<p>[2] which are <i>also</i> emergent consequences of all these heady abstract concepts btw, like what <i>is</i> is that we need to eat, why do we need to eat to begin with, etc.