Aaaargh

The trouble with the relativity bit of physics is you start trying to figure out Sci-Fi physics.

First attempt: There's nothing special about the inside of the Tardis, just that the outside appears stationary and the door that lets you go back and forth between two wildly distinct frames. The inside of the Tardis is moving at about 0.99995 the speed of light with respect to us.

Second look: Wait a second, that would mean that the inside of the Tardis is moving in all three dimensions with respect to the Earth! Okay, there's something special about its inside, too.

Hence the name Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

eep.

"It's like I was sitting on a catapult. He was my rope. And now he's gone and I can flyyyyyyyyy."

I KNOW THE FEELING. IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, BUT I KNOW THE FEELING.

I'm progressing back to Nerd on the Geek-Nerd scale.

I missed out on the first part of the physics talk today (another applicant for faculty), but I did get to chat with the guy more than the lady on Monday. He's so young! I mean... if I didn't know he's a post-doc, I'd think he was my age! (He was even asking about fun things to do around here.) (He was cute too, and I think one of the girls was disappointed that he's married.) (Funny part is, I never did catch his name.)

The subject was primarily quantum dots, but what I mostly caught was the bit about buckyballs. (They found that if they moved a buckyball around a field of potassium atoms, it would pick up the potassium around its base, like a mother hen surrounded by chicks.) (Also, they have some really nifty images of buckyballs at varied energy states.)

They ordered too much pizza for the after-talk dinner again. I tried calling Jeff to see if he wanted me to take him some, without luck. I'm getting to know my fellow physics majors better, so that's cool.

Work work. I should do some math.

Oddly appropriate, triggered by Doomsday music

I feel like watching the end of The War Games. I don't know if I feel more for Zoe and Jamie or for The Doctor.

BTW, Patrick Troughton is awesome.

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I need to make a T-shirt that says "My professors have geek cred."