I was into them so I guess so :) I was into them so I guess so :) I wrote a book report on Black holes in 1987 in 10th grade a year _before_ Hawking published his "Brief History of Time" book. I had to use whatever was around in encyclopedias and stuff. His book would've made it a little easier maybe. 10 pages. Proudest essay I wrote honestly. Anyway, my interest in this stuff goes back to adolescence (big and small stuff). I was going to go into Theoretical Physics in 1990 at college but the professor gave the pre-college talk on "Quantum Mechanics for the Myriad" was on sabbatical so I picked child cognitive psychology/development instead.