Hey, look! A non-health-related post!
(Yeah, let's talk about something else besides my disintegrating body for a while...)
So last night, JP and I went to the LA Geek Dinner. The last one, at least for now, since the organizer (a thirty-something self-described self-inventer) is moving on to other things. Basically, the dinner is a chance for geeks (specifically IT geeks) in the LA area to get together in a social setting. Possibly the only social setting that doesn't involve their jobs that they get, but let's not rush to judgment.
Afterwards, a talk by Dr. Charles Baltay of Yale University on some models of cosmology, the search for dark energy, and how that search keeps stumbling over new planet-like objects in the outer Solar System. It was an interesting talk, though a bit elementary.
So during the Q&A period, I simply had to ask what progress had been made in theoretical correlation between dark energy and Einstein's cosmological constant.
The unspoken context to the audience: See, there are the real geeks who know physics, and then there are bit-pushers like y'all.
So last night, JP and I went to the LA Geek Dinner. The last one, at least for now, since the organizer (a thirty-something self-described self-inventer) is moving on to other things. Basically, the dinner is a chance for geeks (specifically IT geeks) in the LA area to get together in a social setting. Possibly the only social setting that doesn't involve their jobs that they get, but let's not rush to judgment.
Afterwards, a talk by Dr. Charles Baltay of Yale University on some models of cosmology, the search for dark energy, and how that search keeps stumbling over new planet-like objects in the outer Solar System. It was an interesting talk, though a bit elementary.
So during the Q&A period, I simply had to ask what progress had been made in theoretical correlation between dark energy and Einstein's cosmological constant.
The unspoken context to the audience: See, there are the real geeks who know physics, and then there are bit-pushers like y'all.