Spectacular Science

We have been reading the Story of Science series by Joy Hakim this year in school. It has really been a fascinating read! We have learned a lot. We have learned that the universe is expanding...like fleas on a balloon being blown up the galaxies are racing away from each other. And that gravity is not an apple dropping from a tree but that "gravitation is caused by mass curving spacetime and also responding to that curvature." That we are really freefalling through space. The more we learn the more excited we are to learn more. I am now reading the book SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR FEYNMEN about a Noble Prize winning physicist because of Joy Hakim's books as well as a stack of others. One of my goals is to take the time to study the book PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE by Michio Kaku this summer. This one my son, J, has been studying this year and he came home from the new movie Star Trek so excited. The part that made him the most excited about the movie? "I understood what they were talking about!" He could follow the science jargon and science storyline in the movie. And that is just plain cool.