Marcus Carter

Is it like Texas Hold'em?

What?

Yeah, and, you know, I land on something safe, which is to plagiarise somebody else's work.

Remember, in academia, plagiarise, plagiarise, let nobody else's work evade your eyes.

And so Marcus said that, and I was doing this and I was doing that and playing, playing, playing, and then I had to look up Wikipedia.

So then if you're picking up some new knowledge, that's good because they can never take it away from you, whoever they are.

And in the same way, if you're then going to relativistic stuff, you're picking up extra knowledge.

So what's not to like, yeah?

And that was exactly what Einstein did.

So Einstein was a pretty good mathematician and a pretty good this and a pretty good that.

But what he was really good at was seeing things that other people didn't.

And what he saw was there's a beam of light.

What would happen if I was sitting on that beam of light and then everything followed from that?

So they're putting the students into it and instead of saying, tonight you've got to read pages 1 to 45 and we'll talk about it, they say, play this game and you get to the same place but you did it yourself at your own speed.

Yeah, so the importance of this is, as you said, in understanding the human body, but also in medicines and also in this new area called peptides.

Mm-hmm.

So you have a thing called an amino acid, which is like a carbohydrate or a fat, but it's got an extra atom in it.

It's got a nitrogen.

And so a peptide can be anything from two aminos stuck together up to about 10.

And once you get past 10, they start calling it a protein.