Comments on: Show the Love

By: daisy rose

daisy rose — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:31:19 +0000

Here

“But my own wings were not enough for this
Had it not been that then my mind there smote
A flash of lightning where in came its wish
Here vigor failed the lofty fantasy
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,
The love which moves the sun and the other stars” Dante Canto XXXIII

as well

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:54:44 +0000

Actually it was addressed to “physicists,” who you will note constitute far less than 5% of humanity.

By: andante

andante — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:21:54 +0000

And if you’re not all that passionate about what you’re doing — switch to doing something you really do love.*

*This commentary was not directed at the 95+% of humanity who has very little choice in how their passions are utilized.

By: John Baez

John Baez — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:37:55 +0000

Alda was apparently some kind of TV actor back in the day…

I’m hoping Sean is just being his usual witty ironic self. Otherwise, I must be really old.

By: Put Yourself In Their Shoes - Asymptotia

Put Yourself In Their Shoes - Asymptotia — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:09:23 +0000

[...] Jennifer Ouellette and Sean Carroll where there too. Their takes can be found here and here, [...]

By: Metal

Metal — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:20:16 +0000

My love is too sacred to show

By: Neil B.

Neil B. — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:23:59 +0000

I heard a tape of Feynman’s bongo playing on NPR a few years ago. I sounded great, and if Alda could simulate that it would be really cool. Feynman’s Lecture’s series were a joy to read, and I felt like things were being explained to me better than anywhere esle. I assume almost all of them (not counting literal errors, note the many corrections being added to the latest revisions) are still valid, anyone care to point out where we’ve had to revise and change course?

By: Sleeth

Sleeth — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:03:24 +0000

“Apparently some kind of TV actor back in the day”.

Just wait. Some day someone will say “Apparently Jerry Seinfield was some kind of TV actor back in the day”, and then you will officially feel old.

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:36:14 +0000

“And if you’re not all that passionate about what you’re doing — switch to doing something you really do love.”

Unfortunately, doing research costs money, and while love is free, funding is not… Congress Slashes High-Tech Physics Budget, Jan 18

“The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), one of the premier U.S. physics research centers, expected $120 million in high-particle physics money from DOE. Instead it got $95 million, forcing it to lay off 125 people and curtail the activities of Babar, its major high-energy physics experiment. “This is going to be bloody,” one scientist said. “And you’re cutting into the lab’s core competencies.”

Meanwhile, the Iraq occupation is running at $5 billion a month in up-front costs, with the interest steadily accumulating…

By: Low Math, Meekly Interacting

Low Math, Meekly Interacting — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:16:20 +0000

On the subject of performance, it’s shocking how irony just vanishes as soon as it enters a data port. Black hole unitarity looks trivial by comparison.