Kelly, Christian, and I performed our first chemistry “experiment” last night. I put the experiment in quotes, because it really was not much of an experiment. The task was just to familiarize ourselves with the idea that all things are made of atoms and everything can be described in terms of its basic constituient atoms. It went OK. Actually, the text part of this chapter (and I think the next one, too) was much better than the experiment. The experiments start getting good when we get to the third chapter. I really think we will all learn a lot and have a great time doing it.
