Lies, damn lies and children’s books
INITIALLY, Richard Mallett was excited to be told that there is a new magazine for children on sale in the UK, called . But then he read the sample article on the flyer, entitled “Eco bulbs, money saver?”. This unexpectedly veers off into fundamental – and indeed novel – theories of the nature of light itself.
“Most theories in physics talk about it behaving like a wave, when it travels fast it splits into the colours of the rainbow,” we are informed. Albert Einstein, apparently, “theorised that light can create particle-like entities called photons” and these “throw off…
