What is moonlight made of?
It bathes the sleeping world with a wash of ghostly glimmers. It pokes beckoning fingers through our windows and transforms the outdoors into an unearthly wonderland. This magical moonlight makes any young person curious to know more about it. Every up to date student knows that solids, liquids and gases are made from particles of matter called atoms and molecules. Maybe we take it for granted that even such things as energy are made from the same ingredients. Science, however, is full of upside down paradoxes, and in the case of energy this notion is both true and untrue. For matter is a sort of frozen state of energy. Energy can be converted or changed into matter, and matter can be converted into energy. In the hydrogen bomb, atomic particles of matter are converted into nuclear energy. Moonlight starts forth as this same kind of nuclear energy, and after a couple of space trips it lands on the earth. It is created in the nuclear furnace of the sun, where every second 4 million tons
