Physics for Cats
Published on 9. October 2025
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-83726-530-5 (ISBN)
Description
What happens to a cat who goes through a wormhole?
Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to their electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and oversized rubber gloves.
Find out what the hadron's news alert about CERN says! Everyone asks, "What is dark matter?" and "Where is dark matter?" but do they ever take the time to ask, "How is dark matter?" Based all on previous data, we can predict with a 99.99% certainty that you will either laugh, guffaw, chortle or snort (we don't have a large enough sample set to be able to say which particular type of mirth you will experience.)
Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to their electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and oversized rubber gloves.
Find out what the hadron's news alert about CERN says! Everyone asks, "What is dark matter?" and "Where is dark matter?" but do they ever take the time to ask, "How is dark matter?" Based all on previous data, we can predict with a 99.99% certainty that you will either laugh, guffaw, chortle or snort (we don't have a large enough sample set to be able to say which particular type of mirth you will experience.)
Reviews / Votes
Gauld is my favourite hyber-minimalist brainiac cartoonist -- WILLIAM GIBSON Tom Gauld might just be the Edward Gorey of our time, channelling his wry humour and macabre aesthetic through exquisite black-and-white illustrations -- MARIA POPOVA Sublime * * The Times * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Full colour illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
419 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83726-530-5 (9781837265305)
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Person
Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator with weekly comic strips in the Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in the New York Times and on the cover of the New Yorker. He is the author of Goliath, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Mooncop, Baking with Kafka (winner of an Eisner Award), Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Revenge of the Librarians and most recently Physics for Cats. He lives and works in London.
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