That was the title of one of todays sessions here at the America Physical Society meeting in Tampa. Some other intriguing topics being discussed:
- Charm Physics
- Alchemy of the Heaviest Elements
- Cleo Bottomonia Physics
It’s been great fun re-meeting so many physicist friends–and riding the elevator with hundreds more physicists, including many –but sadly not enough–women physicists. (The pipeline for women from high-school physics to physics full-professorships seems to spring a bad leak somewhere before grad school.)
Physicists come in a lot of different varieties but I have not seen any who’d fit your popular image of naughty conventioneers.
Among the great shirts and bumper stickers for sale, here is my favorite:
PLEASE FLIRT HARDER, I AM A PHYSICIST