Jun 20, 2014 Teaching and Learning

I caught my daughter staring at the ceiling, looking thoughtful.

“What are you looking at, Sweets?” I asked.

My daughter replied, still gazing upward, “I was looking at that spider up there.”

“Don’t be nervous, Babe.  It’s tiny.  It’s not going to suddenly chase you.”

“No,” she replied, “I’m not worried.  I was thinking how something so small could make such a BIG shadow on the ceiling.”

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A second later, this thought occurred to me:  Do atoms cause shadows?  If everything that exists and has physical properties casts a shadow, do atoms cause shadows?  Do quarks? 

And what about the Higgs-Boson particle?

~ Dreamer of Dreams

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