On Day 22, Pat called me and I picked up. He talked to me about his transcription job, where he’s working on some out-there optical science stuff. One of the things that has inflamed my imagination most in the last ten or 15 years is the hazy, hairy frontier region between language’s power for description and quantum phenomena’s need for description. Language begins to fail to describe what is actually happening, and that’s exciting. Here is some language, not necessarily to do with any q-word stuff:
metasurfaces
perovskites
borosilicate
neodymium
bowtie resonator
imaginary impedance
response curve
integrative nanophotonics
multiplexed imaging
rabbito
Mach-Zehnder interferometry
Raman resonance
Fano resonance
Solitons
Self-reinforcing wave packets
crystal epitaxy
prion proteins
self-organizing nanomachines
distributed consciousness
emergent phenomena
phase array
complex persistent waveform
oscillatory projection
tunable lattice
optoelectronics
high dimensional gradient descent
Patty loves JP