Larry M. Silverberg is a theoretical and applied dynamicist. He is fond of saying that he likes the very practical and the very theoretical – where the goals are less compromising. Dynamics is about the motion of bodies, whether it is the electrons moving in wires, which give us an entire electronics industry, or it is the photons in space moving at light speed past the stars, giving us interstellar communication. He has published a number of practical and theoretical books about these things and today, much of the focus of his work is on explaining science and engineering topics in simple terms, to broad audiences who would otherwise find these topics difficult to understand.