And even if you forget about the fantastic job market situation, physics has something fascinating.
A fantastic synthesis of performance, physics, and biology mark Polish botanist Urszula Zajączkowska's new video, Metamorphosis of Plants.
He sent me it this morning—a demo of the new Crayon Physics Deluxe and it's fantastic.
Planetary nebulae, which, along with supernovae, provide the raw stuff of future star formation, are "fantastic laboratories in space for atomic physics research," says astronomer Yervant Terzian of Cornell University.
When you teach Physics 1b, do you give "fantastic performances?" A. You know, I've come to think of professorial charisma as dangerous.
The CERN collider is the future of physics, Dr. Konigsberg said: "But it would be a fantastic feat to add one more jewel to the crown of discoveries from the Tevatron.
But "from the point of view of verifying the basic ideas and doing interesting physics," says Lloyd, a pioneer theorist in quantum computing, "it's fantastic".
Another example: we can imagine a renegade group of whimsical physicists proposing to reconstruct physics, refusing to use memory beliefs, or if that is too fantastic, memories of anything more than 1 minute ago.
So we can all be on solid ground, neither superhero group (the Fantastic Four or the X-Men) falls under our current knowledge of genetics, physics, biochemistry, and mathematics.
For those who care to look for the references, the books allude to Milton, Blake, Coleridge, Ruskin, the Bible, Homer, Norse mythology, quantum physics and string theory, but they are also suffused with a richly compelling plot and fantastic characters.
