After a year or so of hard work, especially on Jan’s part, we finally came up with the layout of the periodic table that we can agree on and that we both like. But obviously the real test is if the kids will find it interesting. Before we print the posters via offset printing, we plan to make a donation of a few digital prints to a school in the Vancouver area and get the real world feedback. Please stay tuned…
R Feynman
If in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms -- little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence you will see an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.