02 Water is Weird

In which we start seeing the tiny things

Welcome to our second topic, designed to be taken after “The Universe is Weird”.

By the end of this, you’ll understand the oddity of atoms — what they’re made of, and why they hook together to make molecules. You’ll hear the stories of Democritus, Henry Cavendish, and Wilson Bentley. You’ll understand something quite hard — why is every snowflake both unique and symmetrical?

You’ll shrink down to see heat and motion, to glimpse the real shape of water, and to understand why that changes everything.