![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermausLast night, after a rewarding and happy dinner with the Queen of Stuff, birthday girl supreme, I went off to bed and had the oddest dream...
In my dream, I was at some kind of hotel by the pool, but it was all dark and abandoned. And these strange people in trenchcoats and silly hats were skulking around. In a corner of the patio were a couple of other, slightly different trenchcoat-clad people--more sort of gutterpunk-hippies,and the skulkers jumped at them and demanded in a bad German accent, "All right, you undisciplined hippies, tell us, and tell us now! Explain to us how Planck's Law works!!"
How the heck did I come up with THAT? Even now I'm digesting what Wikipedia tells me about Planck's law: In physics, Planck's law describes the spectral radiance of unpolarized electromagnetic radiation at all wavelengths emitted from a black body at absolute temper ature T. As a function of frequency ν, Planck's law is written as:[1][2] I(\nu,T) =\frac{ 2 h\nu^{3}}{c^2}\frac{1}{ e^{\frac{h\nu}{kT}}-1}.
And of course, as an art-geek, I hadn't the first idea, and neither did my poor protagonists in the dream. So they, and I, hedged:
"Well, Planck was doing this awesome research about the depths of the deepest deepness, like, you know? and The Man was totally not down with that, and Planck was all frustrated because he'd found, like, the key to finding oblivion, you know? And all his friends were coming around, going, "Maaaaan, that's so whack that they're down on you for that fine equation! So they tagged a bunch of subway walls with Planck's Law until the people let it soak into their brains, right?" And they pointed out a big graffito with a hazy equation and a painted face underneath, staring off into blackness...
I only remember the dream because I woke to the downstairs fire alarm again--my very nice neighbor had scorched a pizza, and was frantically trying to let the smoke out before it woke me. I was assured everything was okay, and toddled back to bed, wondering how the hell I'd come up with Planck's Law and how much more stealth-physics I had in my poor, long-suffering brain...
I'm still a little impressed...
In my dream, I was at some kind of hotel by the pool, but it was all dark and abandoned. And these strange people in trenchcoats and silly hats were skulking around. In a corner of the patio were a couple of other, slightly different trenchcoat-clad people--more sort of gutterpunk-hippies,and the skulkers jumped at them and demanded in a bad German accent, "All right, you undisciplined hippies, tell us, and tell us now! Explain to us how Planck's Law works!!"
How the heck did I come up with THAT? Even now I'm digesting what Wikipedia tells me about Planck's law: In physics, Planck's law describes the spectral radiance of unpolarized electromagnetic radiation at all wavelengths emitted from a black body at absolute temper ature T. As a function of frequency ν, Planck's law is written as:[1][2] I(\nu,T) =\frac{ 2 h\nu^{3}}{c^2}\frac{1}{ e^{\frac{h\nu}{kT}}-1}.
And of course, as an art-geek, I hadn't the first idea, and neither did my poor protagonists in the dream. So they, and I, hedged:
"Well, Planck was doing this awesome research about the depths of the deepest deepness, like, you know? and The Man was totally not down with that, and Planck was all frustrated because he'd found, like, the key to finding oblivion, you know? And all his friends were coming around, going, "Maaaaan, that's so whack that they're down on you for that fine equation! So they tagged a bunch of subway walls with Planck's Law until the people let it soak into their brains, right?" And they pointed out a big graffito with a hazy equation and a painted face underneath, staring off into blackness...
I only remember the dream because I woke to the downstairs fire alarm again--my very nice neighbor had scorched a pizza, and was frantically trying to let the smoke out before it woke me. I was assured everything was okay, and toddled back to bed, wondering how the hell I'd come up with Planck's Law and how much more stealth-physics I had in my poor, long-suffering brain...
I'm still a little impressed...
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-01-05 02:56 am (UTC)And your funny as hell.
no subject
Date: 2011-01-06 02:19 pm (UTC)