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 <http://www.nordita.org/>, Living in Stockholm, Sweden<http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/Regions--Cities/Stockholm/>. Her husband, *Stefan Scherer, works in * Scientific Publishing/Public Outreach and is living in Heidelberg<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg> /Germany <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gm.html>. Apparently they have new twin girls<http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2011/12/interna.html>. 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > There are some sweet yet obscure physics anecdotes for some holidays at > http://backreaction.blogspot.**com/ <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 >
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