origin of it goes to when my kittens were small ( I have 3 cats, black, grey and white) I said to my kids that : white one should be called - "white matter" grey - "grey matter" black - "dark matter"
Would you be interested in non-fiction about the early days of quantum physics, for example? (I came to this from "antimatter")
If so, I would recommend The Strangest Man, on the life and work of Paul Dirac who has 'discovered' antimatter through mathematical equations a long time before they could be observed. It is the fascinating true story of this genius, as well as his contemporaries Bohr, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Schrodinger etc in the run up to the first atom bomb.
Yes, definitely! I also enjoyed "History of nearly everything" - listened to it 2 weeks ago. Also few months ago I listened to "Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?)" by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw - I finally understood 4th dimension, got muddled up trying to understand the 5th dimension - must read it and look at diagrams at the same time to understand it!
Ah I have another one for you, then. I really loved Measuring The World, about the lives of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859) and the mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855). Truly brilliant, I heartily recommend this book.
