Well, it starts out:
When physicists marry physicists, the beginning may be a ‘big bang,’ but issues of life, love, and family gravitate toward the universal.
Ok. Stop there. That’s way too many physics puns and double entendre in one sentence. It’s a nice article by Mike Perricone in Symmetry magazine about physics couples. Physicists who marry physicists.
Physics, families, careers, children… it’s all in there. Have a read.
Best of all, perhaps, there’s this wedding cake to the left, which is just - Wow! (Click for larger view. More in the article itself.) I wonder what my mum will think of this? She makes cakes - wonderful ones, and can decorate them with flowers and leaves made of sugar. But I’m pretty sure that she has not tried equations of any sort.
-cvj
(Thanks Sara T!)
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Good article! Though I would’ve worked in an additional pun about an “excited state” in the marriage myself.
One entendre is never enough. . . .
I know a physics couple. But one really does engineering, and the other software. Perhaps they just lost the faith.
thanks for mentioning the article, a nice read
Do you think the cake is real, or is it a virtual fake? Hard to tell. It doesn’t look so really convincing to me.
I know the son of the last couple mentioned. He also works on a Fermilab experiment (CDF) for his undergrad research. Fermilab through and through, that family.
I believe that it’s even more common for astronomers to marry each other. I’m one of those (getting married this summer) and in my department there are at least a dozen astronomer couples (with 4 professor married couples and two other profs married to post-docs).
Things do seem to be looking up for the “two-body” problem with the larger incidence these days, but it’s always a challenge.
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And why wouldn’t the cake be real? It looks like it was done specifically for that article. Looks like rolled fondant.
(and hey, Clifford, my mom makes cakes too!! May be I should have her put equations on our wedding cake.)
The astronomer comment reminds me of the coolest geek cake I’ve ever seen- it was in the shape of the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. I have a friend who puts even me to shame on the geek scale, and her mom whipped it up for her Sweet 16.
As a physics hobbiest, I find that cake way cool is there any way to know what formula is on there?
At a glance, it looks a bit like the Particle Physics Standard Model Lagrangian to me, with the table of fundamental particles listed on the top.
Cheers,
-cvj