It turns out that the 78th annual SESAPS meeting
was all that I could have hoped for, and more. The most revealing part of the
whole thing was just how many types of physicists there are. There were 35
different categories of talks, all with two to eight speakers each, going all
day. That’s a lot of physics to cover.
Of course, some of the talks were more interesting (and more
accessible) than others. For instance, did you ever wonder how a cat’s tongue
laps up water? Neither did I, until I saw a presentation explaining the physics
behind it.
