Millie micro nano pico is a series of witty educational stories about the subatomic world that introduce a few basic concepts of quantum physics. The magic words Ă'Millie micro nano picoĂ" are used by Millie, the pussycat, to become small enough to p...
Book 2 is a humorous introduction to magnetism based on the orientation of electron spins. Children learn about magnetic fields, attractive and repulsive forces and the difference between magnetic and non-magnetic materials. Children love this book. ...
Book 3 is a playful description of the interaction between electrons and photons. At first Millie is confused by the game that the particles play, but after learning about energy levels, quantisation and in particular the law of conservation of energ...
Millie micro nano pico Book 6 is about the elementary particles called neutrinos. Neutrinos are everywhere, but are very hard to detect because they donÕt interact much with the other particles. Their mass is extremely small, they have no charge, an...
Millie micro nano pico Book 4 is an introduction to electricity. It starts with Millie discovering that her little friends are called electrons because they carry an electric charge. At first she is scared of anything electric, but she ends up having...
Millie micro nano pico Book 5 is about electric charge and in particular the elementary charged particles called quarks. The protons and neutrons inside the atomic nucleus are made of quarks. Millie wants to know how to tell the difference between a ...
Millie micro nano pico Book 7 is very special: most of the questions Millie asks the electrons in this book were suggested by children who read the previous stories. Here is what they wanted to know: Do electrons have mums and dads? How are they born...
Millie micro nano pico Book 8 is for all the children who asked Millie to find out more about the inhabitants of Bosonville and Fermioncity. Millie knows that photons are bosons and electrons are fermions. In this adventure, she discovers that you ca...