AWESOME
Inexplicably and unexpectedly, probably irredeemably and completely indefensibly, I REALLY LIKE JLab. In regards to which, WTF, self? You don't particularly like experiments, and you don't particularly care about data, and verifying physical constants doesn't give you any great kick -- and yet you still get all crazy gleeful sitting there measuring count rates. And writing them down in your notebook. And plotting them as you go along, with error bars in all directions.
I suspect it's the real-world-ness that gets me -- suddenly it's no longer true that everything is either symmetric or negligible, but the craziness can be measured and quantified and I can make myself a little Matlab world with appropriate bumps and asymmetries and if I could only measure ENOUGH then my model would look just like my data, and that's just cool.
In other news, Hyperion is tumbling chaotically. Also, Mercury has a funny resonant spin-orbit coupling.
In other other news, I should probably eat more vegetables. Carrots are nice: they taste good, they're easy to eat, and they're ORANGE (like my laptop case, but still unlike my Jlab partner's hair).
I suspect it's the real-world-ness that gets me -- suddenly it's no longer true that everything is either symmetric or negligible, but the craziness can be measured and quantified and I can make myself a little Matlab world with appropriate bumps and asymmetries and if I could only measure ENOUGH then my model would look just like my data, and that's just cool.
In other news, Hyperion is tumbling chaotically. Also, Mercury has a funny resonant spin-orbit coupling.
In other other news, I should probably eat more vegetables. Carrots are nice: they taste good, they're easy to eat, and they're ORANGE (like my laptop case, but still unlike my Jlab partner's hair).