Wouter Schmitz

Wouter J.M. Schmitz, born 1970, studied physics in Amsterdam. He worked at CERN for an assignment at the Spin Muon Collaboration (SMC) and later as a summer student at a LEP experiment. He graduated at Nikhef Amsterdam in 1994. He has subsequently worked in IT and also holds an MBA degree. Today, Wouter works as a leading digital architect, retaining nonetheless a deep and informed interest in conceptual problems in physics.

His lifelong quest for a profound conceptual understanding of the fundaments of physics resulted in a large gathered and developed set of insights. In recent years Wouter managed to combine those in a consistent end to end story how quantum field theory works conceptually. This, in turn, led to writing "particles, fields and forces".

Up to now, when one wants to get a better insight than popular science has to offer, the mathematical treatment of the subject was the next step. For most, this step is too challenging. Wouter aims to provide every interested person with a deeper insight into the workings of the universe without having to go through the math. As such, it bridges some of the huge gap between popular science and the mathematical treatment of the subject. Wouter realised that such explanations require (color) pictures and so he created about 180 pictures to go with the text.

All that's left now is to wish you a lot of fun insights when reading Wouter's book!