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Saturday, October 15th, 2005 10:45 pm
up, down, charm, strange, top and heh, bottom
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svmadelyn actually *hates* me, a total surprise, when I received a package in the mail. There were Season Two Farscape DVDs to borrow--no, that was good--coffee and chocolate--pretty much my favorite things ever--and at teh bottom, a book. The Elegant Universe. My *God*.
Transcribed, the note:
So I couldn't find my copy of this at all and just decided to try and buy a new one. Don't burn it. *grins* I will want it back eventually.
I think this pretty much obligates you to write a certain story?
Quite possibly. *ducks*
Happy reading? And remember, no burning.
I'm on page ten. Its been *this close* to the fireplace.
It faintly reads like a Tolkien prelude--and there was an Einstein, and there was a Newton, and never can the magics of relativity and the magics of quantum mechanics meet, but lo! There came a Child called Superstring Theory and united the warring nations under a benelovent dictatorship so we can understand the properties of matter inside black holes and the big bang and all rejoiced! Because that's been preying on my mind often these days.
I keep thinking how Relativity and Quantum Mechanics got together finally--a little bar outside the cosmos, drinking too much, then waking up and one got knocked up and Angst and Rage! Then there was Stringy, and yeah, you can see right here how much I slept through a lot of my hard sciences.
But, here is what we, and by we, I mean me and the fireplace, learned.
Taus, electrons, protons, neutrinos, quarks up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. You can guess when I had to stop and start giggling for really juvenile reasons.
Page *ten*. I feel smarter already.
svmadelyn actually *hates* me, a total surprise, when I received a package in the mail. There were Season Two Farscape DVDs to borrow--no, that was good--coffee and chocolate--pretty much my favorite things ever--and at teh bottom, a book. The Elegant Universe. My *God*.Transcribed, the note:
So I couldn't find my copy of this at all and just decided to try and buy a new one. Don't burn it. *grins* I will want it back eventually.
I think this pretty much obligates you to write a certain story?
Quite possibly. *ducks*
Happy reading? And remember, no burning.
I'm on page ten. Its been *this close* to the fireplace.
It faintly reads like a Tolkien prelude--and there was an Einstein, and there was a Newton, and never can the magics of relativity and the magics of quantum mechanics meet, but lo! There came a Child called Superstring Theory and united the warring nations under a benelovent dictatorship so we can understand the properties of matter inside black holes and the big bang and all rejoiced! Because that's been preying on my mind often these days.
I keep thinking how Relativity and Quantum Mechanics got together finally--a little bar outside the cosmos, drinking too much, then waking up and one got knocked up and Angst and Rage! Then there was Stringy, and yeah, you can see right here how much I slept through a lot of my hard sciences.
But, here is what we, and by we, I mean me and the fireplace, learned.
Taus, electrons, protons, neutrinos, quarks up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. You can guess when I had to stop and start giggling for really juvenile reasons.
Page *ten*. I feel smarter already.
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From:Now now, quarks are allowed to have their own proclivities too.
Don't forget Shrodinger's cat. It can get shot, and then not be shot, and then wait, it was shot again. Sort of like a plot hole. Shroedinger's Plot Hole? Quantum Mechanics accidentally runs over Shroedinger's cat on the way home from the bar, but it simultaneously lays dead on the road and scampters off to safety.
"Dammit." mutters Newtonian physics. "I hate it when that happens".
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From:I'm surprised someone hasn't worked that into a story yet. Hey, now, here's a thought... *touches fingertips to temples and beams telepathic compulsion beam at you*
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From:*rubs forehead* The words *oh my God I am beyond help* comes to mind. Though now the whacky sex games of the quarks is starting to make me wonder just a little.
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From:Kidding. *g* I'm just--I mean, so far, it is all words I know, and I'm like, sticking on mental post it notes to remind myself of the entire tau and neutrino sitch, but man. It's just--it's so *much*. It actually reminds me in a way of my favorite political science book that did an overview of all enlightenment philosophy--fascinating in how i caught glimpses of all these bigger, huge philosophies behind it, but just glimpses, just enough not to overload.
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From:Another book that I highly recommend in the brain twisting category is The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. Talbot writes that ". . . there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it. . . are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time."
There's some wonderful plot bunnies inherent in those conceptual hills *G*.
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From:......
There aren't words, are there?
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From:*chokes*
That is so wonderful! May I quote you?
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From:Or, possibly, if I were somehow transported back to the early 40s, mens' habit of addressing their also-male friends as "My dear ______" would make my wee slasher's heart burst with joy. No, I kid, they were so doing it.
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From:I don't know if I'm lucky, or if I should do some reading up again on Quantum Mechanics.
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From:Quantum Theory breaks my brain.
I'd like the analysis idea though, you can confuse the rest of the internet this way; you go down, we all go down! :D
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Brian Greene
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From:I saw the PBS special on it (hosted by the man himself) and it's good. It won't make the book easy but it would definitely help. Course I'm now stuck on the 'wacky sex games of the quarks'. Like some sort of neurotic Douglas Adams spin off. As if there's another kind.
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From:You know, I never read the book, but I watched the PBS series. So if the book mentions a guy named Joe Polchinski? He was my quantum mechanics prof when I was a grad student in Austin. Nicest guy in the world, totally adorable, absent-minded professor type. Just about killed me dead with homework. *g*
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