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Absolute Zero

1978 novel by Helen Cresswell

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Absolute Zero is a 1978 children's novel by Helen Cresswell, the second book in the Bagthorpe Saga. Plot introduction The Bagthorpe Saga follows the lives of the Bagthorpe family, who live in Unicorn House in an unspecified part of the United Kingdom. The nearest large settlement is the (presumably) fictional town of Aysham. Jack Bagthorpe is the protagonist with his dog Zero. Jack's family become involved in entering competitions. Plot summary Uncle Parker has won a trip to the Caribbean in a caption contest. In typical Bagthorpian style, the rest of the family immediately enter similar competitions in an attempt to better his prize but, much of the time, beating the others to an entry form is a victory in itself. With the Parkers on vacation, manic 4-year-old cousin Daisy comes to stay. Uncle Parker claimed her pyromania has passed, but neglected to mention the nature of her current obsession. As Daisy's activities bring the household to its knees using items such as paint, face powder, water and an invisible friend/entity named Arry Awk, Grandma manages to get herself arrested, Mrs Fosdyke is reduced to serving up dishes such as oxtail trifle, while the children are busy wrapping up unwanted prizes to give each other as Christmas presents. When the Bagthorpes eventually win a chance at fame and happiness, the fates deliver a chance for history to not only repeat but excel itself. Release details 1978, UK, Faber and Faber, 20 February 1978, hardback (first edition) 1979, UK, Puffin Books, 27 September 1979, paperback 2005, UK, Oxford University Press, 3 March 2005, paperback

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Notable quotes

“A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.”
— Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon 15, Of the Nativity (1622).
“If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.”
— Charles Dodgson (bishop) quoted in Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 5
“Future work will extend the coilgun method to trap molecules of chemical interest. Once they are in a magnetic trap, they can be cooled to near the single photon recoil limit using the method of single photon cooling, as demonstrated recently with trapped atoms. The application of this method to cooling of molecules is particularly promising.”
— Edvardas Narevicius, Adam Libson, Christian G. Parthey, Isaac Chavez, Julia Narevicius, Uzi Even, and Mark G. Raizen; “Stopping supersonic oxygen with a series of pulsed electromagnetic coils: A molecular coilgun” in Physical Review A 77(5) • (May 2008).
“It's too cold outside for angels to fly.”
— Ed Sheeran in the song The A Team (song) (2010)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.”
— Lancelot Andrewes, Sermon 15, Of the Nativity (1622).
“If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.”
— Charles Dodgson (bishop) quoted in Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 5
“Future work will extend the coilgun method to trap molecules of chemical interest. Once they are in a magnetic trap, they can be cooled to near the single photon recoil limit using the method of single photon cooling, as demonstrated recently with trapped atoms. The application of this method to cooling of molecules is particularly promising.”
— Edvardas Narevicius, Adam Libson, Christian G. Parthey, Isaac Chavez, Julia Narevicius, Uzi Even, and Mark G. Raizen; “Stopping supersonic oxygen with a series of pulsed electromagnetic coils: A molecular coilgun” in Physical Review A 77(5) • (May 2008).
“It's too cold outside for angels to fly.”
— Ed Sheeran in the song The A Team (song) (2010)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).