Oh, heh, right, there's the whole virtual particles thing! (As I told rachelmanija above, I... mostly skipped over Many Waters on this reread.)
Like , “This is my Very Very Small Hadron Collider…”
I laughed really hard at this. Yeah, L'Engle seems to have this idea that all science is kind of weirdly equivalent, so if you work in one field that automatically makes you an expert in All Other Scientific Fields... I also liked on this reread how Dr. Austin, who is a random doctor doing research for a year in Young Unicorns, is also an expert on lasers because... they are lasers used for medical purposes???? (I don't think we ever even know what kind of doctor he is, or maybe I just skipped over it, but I got the vague impression he was a GP.)
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Date: 2025-01-04 06:35 pm (UTC)Like , “This is my Very Very Small Hadron Collider…”
I laughed really hard at this. Yeah, L'Engle seems to have this idea that all science is kind of weirdly equivalent, so if you work in one field that automatically makes you an expert in All Other Scientific Fields... I also liked on this reread how Dr. Austin, who is a random doctor doing research for a year in Young Unicorns, is also an expert on lasers because... they are lasers used for medical purposes???? (I don't think we ever even know what kind of doctor he is, or maybe I just skipped over it, but I got the vague impression he was a GP.)