During symmetry breaking there is less order and more chaos, and the fundamental characteristics of the universe are radically altered

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Familiar friend

I've started reading physics texts again. I have dozens of them on the shelves - and a dozen years of study under my belt.
I don't expect to make a great contribution in the field. I don't know that I ever believed myself capable. But to read the theory, and to work through the math - it is so pleasing. It is a little like listening to a symphony by Mozart: something I can thoroughly enjoy without being able to create a masterpiece myself. There is a part of me that wishes to lose myself in it

I read out loud from a cosmology book to Eve as she packed her things last night - the particle soup and the fireball of the early universe. Eve is on her way to Africa today. I took her to the airport and then raced home for a couple of teleconferences. I spent the rest of the day answering e-mails and working on proposals. I took Eddy, the dog in the leasing office, for a jog around the block, and I went to the gym.

I met Joy for dinner tonight. Sushi. She brought me my Christmas present: homemade scrubs and creams, and a gift certificate for the Korean day spa we used to frequent when I lived in DC years ago. We talked about the experience of building a business, and about the philosophy of spirituality.

It was a cold night as I walked back from the train station.

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