Some twenty-five years ago, I met a colleague of mine emerging from the office of Enrico Fermi. He told me that he had been discussing physics with Fermi; and after a moment's pause asked, "Why am I doing physics? I should probably be a grocer".
There are some sweet yet obscure physics anecdotes for some holidays at
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ . C. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
It's a charming blog, written by a husband and wife (mainly the wife) pair of young physicists. Sabine Hossenfelder is an Asst. Prof for High Energy Physics at Nordita, Living in Stockholm, Sweden. Her husband,
Stefan Scherer, works in
Scientific Publishing/Public Outreach and is living in Heidelberg/Germany. Apparently they have new twin girls. The stories are their Advent calendar. Here is a "bonus" story from Advent #17. Some twenty-five years ago, I met a colleague of mine emerging from the office of Enrico Fermi. He told me that he had been discussing physics with Fermi; and after a moment's pause asked, "Why am I doing physics? I should probably be a grocer". -- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles Google voice: 747-999-5105 On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Carl Tollander <[hidden email]> wrote: There are some sweet yet obscure physics anecdotes for some holidays at http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ . ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
I have subscribed to it in Google Reader, too, although I do not have time
to read all the blogs I have subscribed to. Google Reader shows always 1000+ for the number of unread blog posts ( another interesting question, why doesn't Google Reader give an exact number? They say it does not matter and it is faster this way http://goo.gl/jqS9c ) -J. ----- Original Message ----- From: Russ Abbott To: [hidden email] ; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:35 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] cigars, grocers, a function of one complex variable.... It's a charming blog, written by a husband and wife (mainly the wife) pair of young physicists. Sabine Hossenfelder is an Asst. Prof for High Energy Physics at Nordita, Living in Stockholm, Sweden. Her husband, Stefan Scherer, works in Scientific Publishing/Public Outreach and is living in Heidelberg/Germany. Apparently they have new twin girls. The stories are their Advent calendar. Here is a "bonus" story from Advent #17. Some twenty-five years ago, I met a colleague of mine emerging from the office of Enrico Fermi. He told me that he had been discussing physics with Fermi; and after a moment's pause asked, "Why am I doing physics? I should probably be a grocer". -- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Google voice: 747-999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ _____________________________________________ On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Carl Tollander <[hidden email]> wrote: There are some sweet yet obscure physics anecdotes for some holidays at http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ . C. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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