Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World

by John Gribbin

George Thomson, who carried out those experiments, received a Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are waves. His father, J.J. Thomson, had received a Nobel Prize for proving that electrons are particles (and was still around to see George get his prize).

‘truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.’

‘can a problem be said to be strictly impossible solely because there is not enough information available in the universe to solve it?’