Sometimes science is a little spooooky! Today’s story from Sam Tallury is an odd tale of youthful hijinks that could only be possible through a careful study of chemistry:
We wrote creepy stuff with phosphorous on our high school walls. The watchmen were very scared when the ‘writings’ glowed in the night. Our chosen phrases were things like, ‘you never know what tomorrow holds for you.’ For me, it held a lot more chemistry, polymer chemistry to be precise!
While we don’t officially condone anything that makes facilities managers nervous (ahem), we can imagine glowing messages would sure give you a shiver! Sam credits his early play with science, both in school and, er, after school, for directing him to a lifelong career of experiments, discoveries, and wonderfully strange materials.
