Finished "Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold" - VERY interesting!!! Cold does some pretty nifty stuff!
Funny how most of the "Great" scientists were hermits kept in bed as children because of some illness or deformity.
Did you know?
-we list temperature in degrees because one of the original scales was divided up by 360?
-C' was centigrade until like 1944 or 1955 when they changed it to Celsius to honor him, but some people argue that others beat him or came up with it at the same time
-many metals become good conductors the colder they get - but gold doesn't
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