Very popular.

I hope they are.

I mean, I'm very lucky that my books are published all around the world, and I focus on, mostly on books for young people, illustrated books for kids about things from black holes and stars and galaxies to my most recent book about quarks and quantum physics for young people.

So it's not giving people knowledge necessarily that they remember all of.

They don't need to take a test at the end of it.

But what they need to do is look at the book and think, there's a new world out there, a new universe that they haven't considered, and that they get that spark and that interest which they can follow throughout their educational career, maybe through their hobbies, as I did as a young kid, doing astronomy and looking up at the stars, or just pursuing sort of mathematical and scientific concepts and exploring how they might impact the world in positive ways using those skills, and that's really what I'm all about.

But people are reading less, and that's something Australia Reads and other organizations are highlighting.

When they wake up CERN and the, the fast collider is there any chance that if you accelerate quarks like crazy you'll get even smaller particles there from which they're made to account for, I don't know, the missing stuff?

Very popular.

I hope they are.

I mean, I'm very lucky that my books are published all around the world, and I focus on, mostly on books for young people, illustrated books for kids about things from black holes and stars and galaxies to my most recent book about quarks and quantum physics for young people.

So it's not giving people knowledge necessarily that they remember all of.

They don't need to take a test at the end of it.

But what they need to do is look at the book and think there's a new world out there, a new universe that they haven't considered, and that they get that spark and that interest which they can follow throughout their educational career, maybe through their hobbies, as I did as a young kid, doing astronomy and looking up at the stars, or just pursuing sort of mathematical and scientific concepts and exploring how they might impact the world in positive ways using those skills, and that's really what I'm all about.

But people are reading less, and that's something Australia Reads and other o- organizations are highlighting.

But going back to the question of whether physics is wobbling at the moment or being solid as it used to be, when they wake up CERN and the, the fast collider, is there any chance that if you accelerate quarks like crazy, you'll get even smaller particles there from which they're made to account for, I don't know, the missing stuff?

Yeah, like, you need a really special microscope to see them.

Inside a star, lots of things are flying around at top speed.

Hot, swirling gases called helium and hydrogen are churning around with lots of energy.

Two hydrogen atoms can crash into each other with so much force that they stick together.

When this happens, they create helium.

You shine it so you can see things in the dark.

Yeah.

When you shine the light on a tree, you can see it because the light's bouncing off the tree, or the light can bounce off the ground in front of you so you can see where you're going.