We're alleged to be con artists who, leading some sort of bizarre crew of hyper-theoretical professors, are enticing consumers to purchase a worthless product that ruins their lives.
"You can't just turn," said Brian Schwartz, a theoretical physics professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Video tributes to the new spaceship came from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking, who also named the ship.
She also chaired the foundation's publications committee and edited several of Krishnamurti's books, including two volumes of his dialogues with the theoretical physicist Professor David Bohm.
On a big screen, there were video dedications from the likes of actress Cate Blanchett, theoretical physicist Professor Paul Davies, Nature editor-in-chief Philip Campbell and former UK chief science advisor Lord May.
Theoretical physicist Professor Michael Duff of Imperial College London complained in March that "non-scientists trying to pick winners and constraining researchers with the straitjacket of 'impact' and 'national interests' is neither good science nor good economics".
Quantum of Life by Iraqi-born theoretical physicist Professor Jim al-Khalili, who is presenting a high-profile BBC Radio 4 documentary series this autumn, sparked an auction which raged on the eve of the fair.
Imperial pointed to research by theoretical physicist Professor Sir John Pendry, who this year won the Kavli prize in nanoscience for contributions to nano-optics, exploring how light behaves on a scale of one billionth of a metre, and work on manmade materials with unusual properties known as metamaterials.
"We're very comfortable saying some kids are the best in sports, but we're not as comfortable singling out the kids who are really exceptional in academics," says science fair alumna Lisa Randall, a Harvard theoretical-physics professor who won the Westinghouse competition as a senior.
"What is distinctive about our program is that there will be a very substantial bringing together of the educational disciplines with the liberal arts and sciences disciplines, like anthropology, sociology and economics," said JAY L. LEMKE, a theoretical physicist and professor of education at Brooklyn College who led the effort to develop the program.
The theoretical work of Professor Bethe in the United States and experimental work carried out in the United Kingdom has suggested that a temperature as low as 50,000 degrees centigrade might be sufficient to burn up an appreciable fraction of the explosive mixture.
