physics is like omigoodness so cool

Yet another quick interruption. This past weekend I got to talk to my dear friend Kristin (she's the awesome cosmology/astro-physics whiz currently doing post-doc work at princeton) about, okay, check this out – PHYSICS. Yep. That's right. For an hour and a half. Physics! I never even took HIGH SCHOOL physics, let alone have any CLUE what someone of her caliber studies on a daily basis.

Let me explain. I was asked to do another reading - for the Magic Theatre's Science on Stage series – more info: http://www.magictheatre.org/pages/readings.shtml

This one was REALLY cool. Amazing female lead – brilliant physicist – who turns into a bit of a nutter (to put it mildly). Good meaty role. Great cast. Cool director and playwright (www.laurengunderson.com). This was one that I would love for someone to produce so that there would be the chance to REALLY do it.

Anyway, the play was full of real physics. And I had to talk about a lot of it – fermions, bosons, dark matter, dark energy, quantum, string theory, false vacuums. And Kristin, thank god, gave me a crash course. I can now actually speak about this stuff. And when the reading was finished and the Magic had a scientist come up and answer questions regarding these words and ideas and notions, I could actually follow the conversation. It was a very illuminating night.

Dave came to this one and decided that he wants to be a theoretical physicist. I don’t blame him. It’s pretty amazing work.