getting physical with britney

I've had no blogtime except for commenting. I had to spend the day with some new people at the weekend. When I got to their house, as you'd expect if you're a freelance Taoist, there was good news and bad. Yes, their heads weren't flat, but they were ex-paratroopers. Okay, they were a refreshing change from the deifheids and whingeing Australians I usually have to socialise with, but their reminiscences of shooting dogs and cats verged on the criminal.

Because there was a chance that I would need to drive home, I had to do the whole thing sober.

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Scientists are different from other people. To you and me, Britney looks like this:




In the course of my research, I stumbled across Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics. There, I discovered that a scientist sees Britney like this:




I actually like the second version better, but I can't explain the physics, you'll need to visit the site yourself.

I can recommend the page on Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers and the Britney's meeting with Einstein. If science had been like this when I was a student, I might never have gone off the rails.