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I used to hang out with a bunch of theoretical physicists at Caltech. To say that their collective sense of humor is an acquired taste may be an understatement.

Anyway, I pretty much got the hang of quantum mechanics, but relativity still gives me brain ache. I’m stuck on the speed of light being the same for all observers. How?!?

Took a “paddleack” (basically an inflatable kayak) down the “Dam Run” on the upper Kern river (western side of the Sierra Nevada). Got wrapped up on Oscar’s Nightmare - a huge boulder in the middle of the river - and had to jump in and swim downstream to the next flat water to climb out. It was a really amazing way to gain perspective on the difference between dangerous and merely scary.

Served seven years in the Army National Guard as an Infantry Morterman (11c). There is no one who cannot benefit from military training.