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My PhD experiment starts soon. The test module is a work of art (baby) and will be shipped out soon. Meanwhile I must do a million and one sims and produce a run plan by 8 am tomorrow.
I wish I was here, lost in the mist:
(Other Japan pictures from the exceedingly wet June trip are in the usual photobucket- I saw the Imperial Palace East Gardens and the Meiji Shrine.)
posted by keppet @ 11:31 PM
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Wow, those are the most amazing trees.
(Yes, I'm easily impressed.)
I wish I was there too now...
Fantastic trees. What are they?
Just er trees. Look, I'm a physicist. Trees made out of atoms made out of protons and neutrons (and electrons) made out of up and down quarks.
Wow, what a poetic answer...
Good luck with the experiment!
Pfft (as someone we know would say). I remember a couple of particle physicists coming up to me when I was presenting a poster at Cambridge maaannny years ago ask me how many subatomic particles might be in DNA. When I tried to explain that even the small viral genome I was working with at the time had thousands of base-pairs and each base-pair had lots of good sized toms in it - like phosphorus, and had a molecular weight of approximately 660 kilodaltons they realized that we were not working in similar ballparks.
And then there are whole trees.... Even a human is made of trillions of cells and each cell contains billions of base-pairs of DNA and all those proteins and fats and water...
Lovely trees though. They could be elms. Where are they?
It is foggy and wet like that here, but warm and sticky.
May your experiment give you lovely, unambiguous, easily interpretable data.
The trees are at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. It was extremely wet and hot with it.
There is some crank on the bbc science board (there always is) going on about quantum entanglement of genes.
One week until the experiment starts... I am not expecting it to be a success since it is my first attempt at running one that has never been run before. Previously I have just helped out established experiments. Thanks for your well wishes though.
Well, DNA is a double helix, held together by hydrogen bonds, and hydrogen bonds are quite... um, quantal? So ISUPPOSE on could go on about it. Not that I ever go on and on about anything.....
I will not wish a perfect experiment then, as we all know that the Great Murphy punishes beginner's luck, but I do hope it goes very well and is informative.
The crank suggests that twins when separated will follow similar paths through life due to quantum entanglement of their dna.
Hmm.
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