Can physics help communication between refugees in Germany and their hosts?

Since nature is universal, and physics is the language, maybe we can reach out to refugees through physics. Does this work in practice? And if so, how? Guest post from Herbi Dreiner

It's kind of funny about nature, no matter where you go, there you are: in nature.

In Bonn, on opposite sides of the Rhine, the laws of nature remain the same, also further afield, throughout Europe, across the Atlantic or in Antartica, where physicists have set up a neutrino telescope. Newton realized that an apple falling on Earth obeys the same gravitational law as the Moon circling the Earth. We have even followed satellites out to the furthest edge of our solarsystem, and it's still the same: gravity, as we know it. Atomic physics as measured in the spectra of the elements, obeys the same laws in our laboratories as it does in distant galaxies. There is no relativism about the electron mass.