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[2009-04-19 12:11:31 +0000 UTC]
(South Africa)
# Statistics
Favourites: 503; Deviations: 97; Watchers: 139
Watching: 82; Pageviews: 37617; Comments Made: 4450; Friends: 82
# About me
I write scientific nonfiction and hard science fiction at scientifictales.com. I play with poetry and sometimes write my own attempts down, although I'm as likely to just say to my husband 'Would you like to hear the poem I just made? It isn't all terrible.' (Teenaged me would be shocked.) I write various kinds of physics course notes and can talk for longer than you might expect about why nothing in science is exact and exactness isn't even a useful goal. I write long awkward prayers and notes for roleplaying games and letters to people who don't exist. If I ever finish writing my PhD thesis (about how people approach the maths of quantum mechanics from a cognitive science/education perspective, if you were wondering) I think I might like to write a book about physics for people who aren't trying to be scientists. But the future is a strange and mutable thing; by the time you're reading this, it may not even be true any more.(Last updated April 2018)
# Comments
Comments: 678
Thank you very much for the fave and your nice comment
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Thank you for the llama! You seem like a very cool person, and that might be a lame thing to say but it's just that I don't think I've ever met someone that loves and writes about science but also dabbles in poetry… so thank you for introducing me to a new breed as well, lol.
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You're very welcome, Mel.
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Thought I was watching you, wtf! Also, how do you feel about the Higgs?
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Haha, didn't Feynman have the quote about nobody being able to explain particle physics?
Okay, so what about gravitational waves, quantum computing, nanomaterials, etc etc etc
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Whyyy are there so many cool physics things that I don't have time to study in rigorous detail? 
I'm trying to figure out effective way and places of talking and writing about this kind of stuff, actually. Academia has a way of making you (me) feel that if it's not a peer-reviewed journal publication it's not worth talking about.
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Why are there so many cool physics things I don't understand?! 
Dude, right?! And you can't use any sort of layman speak...or make definitive statements about anything with a P-value greater than 0.0001. No wonder people don't get it.
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Why are there so many cool physics things I don't understand?!
Because you majored in bio, silly. Or because even the physicists don't understand them. 
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So I just learnt the word quark comes from a nonsense stand in for quarts, as in booze. Now that's something I get!
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Most welcome. You seem to be writing interesting stuff.
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Hello! It has been a while, hasn't it? I'm doing my MSc at UCT now, which I would not have expected to lead me to finding a little more time for dA, but one way and another it seems to have done that, so perhaps I will be around some more, if intermittently. How are things with you these days?
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I'm jealous! I've been studying part time since my degree so I'm only up to finishing my honours this year. Life's been twenty types of crazy. I've fallen out of the habit of writing (and occasionally sleeping enough). I wouldn't mind getting a post doc research job at some point in my life.
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Hello 
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Hope that you have a wonderful day.
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...to frown upon the concept of a normal social life.
Where have you been all my life? :"> ~
You're amazing.
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Thank you so much for the 
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Nice to see you back again - tx for visits & comments & all
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Flash Fiction Month 2012 is on. Spread the word.
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I don't know how I wasn't watching you before, but I fixed it. 
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