Christoph Dresser is a well-known German journalist, author of several popular science books, in 2005 he was named the best journalist of the year writing about science, and in 2008 he received a medal from the Mathematical Society of Germany for popularizing scientific knowledge. In his book, he easily speaks with humor about the important role physics plays in our lives and how its laws determine a variety of phenomena - both on Earth and in space. At the end of each chapter, the reader will find a problem and, solving it, will be able to test the depth of his own knowledge in this amazing science - physics.