Unified Field Theory by Melannen

[melannen]

Title: Unified Field Theory
Author: melannen
Gen, ~900 words.
Summary: John Sheppard leads a team.
Notes: Um, Hi! Written in 38 min + a quick spellcheck,
so you'll forgive me for the scientific errors, right?
I'm sure Dr. McKay will. Eventually.

Comments

[rosewildeirish]

Hee. Nice to see an ordinary moment, and a scientific one (that I could follow), at that.

[melannen]

Don't listen to my science! It'll just make it harder for you learn it right later!

Heh. Thanks.

[rosewildeirish]

Oh, no worries. I'm way too old for school unless I choose it...and I'm unlikely to choose science (or math) at this point.

*g*

[amezri]

Mmmm... Shep talking about science! <3 I love it! I can see Ford sitting between John & Rodney just looking a bit confused ^^

[melannen]

Yes, I imagine he's feeling kind of trapped at the moment. *g* But, you know, science!

[cathexys]

shappard was great, but And stop filling his head with inaccurate simplifications, it'll just make it harder to teach him right later was even better.

thanks for a normal, non-angsty moment...

[melannen]

You're welocme! I love ordinary moments. Especially when you have extraordinary people who have them in extraordinary places.

And I'm glad the last line worked, I'm always nervous about my endings.

[adelynne]

It's a very cute scene, and I love what it reveals about the characters. I suppose, though, it's sad that my inner scientist geek was screaming right along with Rodney. *sigh* No helping the OCD, I suppose...

[melannen]

Thank you! I had a moment of shame about my butchery of nuclear physics, but then I figured, John's smart, but there's no reason he'd know more about it than I do, right?

So tell me: What was the bit that gave you the most pain? I'm curious. :) And there's no shame in wanting to correct people's science.

[adelynne]

True, true. :)

I'm a bio geek by training, so what got me was his explanation of van der Waals. After that I just willed my science to go take a hike and enjoyed the story.

[melannen]

You mean Van der Waals forces *aren't* what make sticky things sticky? *gasp*. No, wait, that's one of the ones that's just right enough to be *totally wrong* isn't it? Oh well.

[fenris_wolf0]

That was funny and quite enjoyable though actually I felt a bit like Adelynne and had to squint (squinting helps in such cases). :)

Keep it up!

[melannen]

Oh! That means you get to tell me what I had most wrong, too, right?

Hey, thanks. Squinting often helps, I've found.