For many of you, it isn’t news that the Summer Solstice Girl is a geek.
I have a strong background in science and at some point I was considering going into Astrophysics. I was a member of the Astronomy Society in my home town and I even got published once for a little article I wrote on the Perseids Meteor Shower. I was a keynote speaker for a National Amateur Astronomer Conference too. Good times.
I heart physics. I am also a James Bond movies fan. So, as it happens often in life, the universe conspires to make you smile. I was already in the middle of writing this post when something else happened. So I decided to change the original title of the post from “Quantum Physics and Lindy Hop? Hell yeah!” to what it is now.
My little Solstice heart got very happy when my friend Krister Shalm – a fellow scientist AND Lindy Hopper, decided to use Lindy Hop to explain a particular problem in quantum physics. In fact, I was happy delighted to the point of being ridiculous. Yes, the SSG very often makes a fool of herself. Cause the SSG doesn’t take herself too seriously. And that’s why the SSG has SO much fun all the time!
Anyway, my friend’s TEDx talk is FINALLY on YouTube. And I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t blog about it.
The full TEDxWaterloo talk that unveils Project Q. Skip to 13:10 for the start of the dance routine.
If you want to learn more about about Project Q, please visit Dr. Shalm’s site
Summer Solstice Musings 
Gotta love it when two of our passions can collide so well like that, eh!?
YEAH!
My always grudge is that I didn’t have the opportunity to be part of the project. Le sadness :(
Awwww.You’d have been great, too. Damn. :(
aaaaaaw <3
N and B were too busy to do it here in Ottawa and I was still convalescing from surgery when the entry deadline happened.
Dang. Maybe another side project to add to your list would be some blog posts on astrophysics. As an astrophysics enthusiast, I’d definitely benefit from your insights as I’m sure the rest of your readers would. Nudge nudge.
oh boy… yet another project… we’ll see
OK, everyone, look at my avatar.
You’re getting sleepy. Very sleepy. You are now….asleep. When I count down from 5, you will wake up and not remember this sub-thread exists.
Here we go. 5…4…3…2…1. Aaaand awake.
Woops…I meant regarding above where I spilled some creative beans. As you were.
Quantum physics? Entanglement? Keynote speaker at an astronomy conference? I think I love you!
Seriously, this is a great post and I’m glad to learn of this side of you. Me, I’ve read about it and watched remarkable videos about it and yet the entanglement thing still befuddles me.
hahahahaha
I know what you mean! I love all of my fellow bloggers too! And I am DEFINITELY in love with your blog!
**OK, calm down SSG, that’s a fracking lot of exclamation marks right there.**
Yeah, I still try to keep up with physics and astronomy but now that I finally found my blogging voice, re-kindled my drawing interest and went back to training, I’m finding it too hard to be a renaissance SSG. There’s only so much I can do.
Also,it was a lot easier when I was single too ;)
[not that I’m complaining. Bear, you still rock!]
Oh, and then there’s little Satchie too….
LOL! No worries, hon.
Sid, you sir are very astute. :)
Dear SSG,
Could you please explain to me what is TEDx?
Le Social Media Clown
PS: If the sarcasm is not thick enough, I’ll take Concerta myself.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Believe it or not a lot of people don’t know what the TED (and TEDx) talks are. I was shocked. But I asked on Twitter, and a good number of people didn’t know
Wowww… I have this fantasy of my little nephew growing up to be an astrophysicist!
ooooooh
That’d be awesome. I mean… I’m sure he’ll be great at whatever he decides to do but that would be really awesome :)
My human mom is a huge geek who teaches math and loves science. She watches TED talks all the time and she really liked this one!
Oh, I’m glad to hear that! Looks like your human mom and I have a few things in common… Like our love for orange tabbies, for example :)
a) I love TED and TEDx talks.
b) Who knew you could find a way to make physics interesting to me?
c) Just plain awesome.