About the book: 2020 / Why do meanders appear when water flows in rivers? How to make a glass sing? Is it possible to build a speaking tube between Paris and Marseille? What laws determine the shape of drops and bubbles? What happens when you cook a roast? Can you eat spaghetti al dente at the top of Everest? How about drinking good coffee there? The reader will find answers to all these questions, as well as many others, in this book. Each page of the book invites wonder, although it discusses the physical phenomena that underlie our everyday life. It does not forget the latest achievements of physics: the authors initiate the reader into the secrets of quantum mechanics and superconductivity, talk about the physical foundations of magnetic resonance imaging and quantum technologies. From chapter to chapter, the reader becomes acquainted with innumerable facets of the physical world. Fundamental results awarded with Nobel Prizes follow descriptions of seemingly insignificant natural phenomena, on which the entire majestic edifice of physics nevertheless rests..