Those people are sitting in the building beside Earth Sciences; we even share the same canteen. They scare me with their intellect. How could I possibly ask a question to people like Gerard 't Hooft and not look like a dummy with my questions?
BTW, I need to diary 't Hooft's holographic principle. Beautiful stuff. Another wonderful thing he invented is something called "planar graphs and the 1/n expansion"... guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
I'm really starting to think science missed out on you. And perhaps I'm too inchoate in this, but I've a small drive to pursue a succesful "career" in science - as people I've spoken to keep wishing me as a goodbye. I try science because I still get satisfaction out of it and I know that I'm good at some aspects of it. Bugger career... When I'm through with science, I'll try something else. Enough plans.
See, I'm drunk. Getting reflective and personal and all that. Enough. I'm off with a walk with the dog.
When I was 12, I had a vivid interest in astrophysics and theoretical physics - the attraction of people like Einstein and Hawking. So I'm still reading on it when I happen to come across it. But it's always filtered: mostly popular science articles.
