What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
Material things don't matter.
Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.