Smashing Pumpkins

Happy day-after-Halloween, everyone!

Halloween: The one day where giving candy to other people’s kids is
not only acceptable, but the preferred method of communication.

I guess I don't have to tell you that, as a physicist, I love shooting things into the air. For this reason, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays; it gives me a chance to watch pumpkin chucking. For any of you who are unfamiliar with the process, this is the breakdown:

1. Get a pumpkin.

2. Make a device that throws the pumpkin.

3. Throw the pumpkin using the device.

Hokie Stone

It turns out that the 78^th 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. 

A Letter to Readers - Conferences

Fine Readers of PiPT, 


Sorry for the long delay in blog posts! It always stresses me out when I haven't written something in more than four days, and it's been a good 3 weeks since this site got any love, so you can imagine my state. But I think that it was worth it, because I was hard at work getting ready to attend...