iggyschool

It is interesting to see how Iggy's interests diverge from mine - take his sudden interest in Physics and Astronomy as a "for instance.". Can a seven year old delve into string theory before he has his addition facts down? Larry says that it's possible and he and Iggy have conversations about dark matter and inter-dimensionality and the scientific nature of the Universe.

There is a Basher book for Astronomy and another one for Physics (and a Periodic Table book - Iggy very seriously pointed out that some of the elements are missing from the book). Man sakes, I love those Basher books!

Because I really am just totally ignorant about a lot of Science, I borrowed the audiobook of a Short History of Nearly Everything from the library and we've been listening to it in the car. It's interesting! Iggy gets something out of it and says "See, I told you about Oort clouds!" (I just called out to him "What's the name of those clouds in space?!" and he replied "Double O R T!") and all I can really take away is that a lot of those eighteenth century scientists were really odd and eccentric. I just don't grok the material the way that he does. Which is fine! It just feels funny - I can see that an unfettered Iggy is an Iggy who will know a heck of a lot more than me.