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Book 9

Book 9 in which Millie goes inside a red laser beam is about the basic principles of lasers. Millie watches how electrons and red photons cooperate to generate a laser beam. At first, she is intrigued by the process of optical pumping. Later, she realises its utility, when she understands the dif...…
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Book 9

Book 10

Millie micro nano pico Book 10 in which Millie fights for the liberation of infrared photons. At the beginning of this adventure, Millie asks the electrons to explain the nature of a rainbow. This allows her to learn that photons have a double nature: they are both particles and waves, just like el...…
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Book 10

The Millie Micro Nano Pico series

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 "Millie micro nano pico" are used by Millie, the pussycat, to become small enough to play with elementary particles such as electrons, p...…
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The Millie Micro Nano Pico series

What is an elementary particle?

Particles work more or less like matryoshka dolls, the wooden dolls that can be opened and contain smaller and smaller dolls inside. The smallest one is a whole piece, not openable like an elementary particle, also called a fundamental particle. In Book 8, Millie tries to break an electron,...…
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What is an elementary particle?

Elementary particles

Around 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus suggested that matter (= everything that has weight and takes up space) is made up of extremely small building blocks surrounded by empty space. These fundamental elements, which contained no smaller components withi...…
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Elementary particles

Nobel prize winners

Nobel Prize in Physics - 1906 Joseph John Thomson: discovery of the electron. Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 1908 Ernest Rutherford: discovery of the nucleus. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 Albert Einstein: quantum explanation of the photoelectric effect. Nobel Prize in Physic...…
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Nobel prize winners

How can Millie get so small?

Millie’s books are full of magical adventures! When magic is involved, the most unexpected and unexplainable things can happen. Have you ever heard of Alice in Wonderland? She shrinks when she drinks a magical potion or takes a bite of an enchanted mushroom. Or how about Puss in Boots? He ca...…
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How can Millie get so small?

Waves

Imagine you’re at the beach watching the sea. Waves in the water go up and down in a rolling motion. Waves aren’t just in water: there are waves in light and sound, and even in waves you can’t see, like radio waves. What is a Wave? A wave is just a way that energy moves from one place to anoth...…
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Waves