Adam Becker

Like, what's going on?

What's going on?

and other Marvin Gaye songs, you get to ask these really deep questions about the world.

You get to think about these wonderful things.

And so, like, chemists have really good demos, right?

They get to blow things up and, you know, put one liquid into another liquid and suddenly it's foaming everywhere and stuff like that.

And like biology, you get like creepy crawly things and like cute baby chickens and things like that.

Like there's all sorts of fun stuff.

Physics doesn't have, you know, cute baby chicks.

I mean, you can have cool explosions, but like chemistry really is really, really sweet for that kind of thing.

But physics does have the truly pervasive on its side, right?

Like if you want me to talk about some of these questions in the foundations of quantum physics, I can point to literally any object and say, look, let's talk about the constituents of that object.

Let's talk about why that chair is solid.

Let's talk about why this ring on my finger is yellowish instead of silvery.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

All of these things come back to quantum physics and thus ultimately to foundations of quantum physics.

And it's just amazing.

Like it goes after a lot of the reasons why I wanted to go into science in the first place.

Yeah.