I've always thought it would be really cool to make an important contribution to physics.
Up until today, it seemed pretty unlikely I would do this, because:
(a) I don't really understand physics, and
(b) I lack federal funding.
However! I do not think I am being immodest in boasting that I do, in fact, have the following important observation to offer the world of physics:
All my favorite physicists have interesting hair.
In some cases, I can tell his or her hair is interesting because this is obvious.
In other cases, I can tell his or her hair is interesting because although he or she has gone to some lengths to tame or disguise this tendency toward interestingness, certain errant hairs and/or the extreme amount of hair product used testifies to the hair's innate interestingness.
Gallileo Gallilei (1564-1642, Italian)
He performed fundamental observations, experiments, and mathematical analyses in astronomy and physics, and discovered mountains and craters on the moon, the phases of Venus, and the four largest satellites of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede.
And he had interesting hair:
Nikola Tesla (1857-1943, Serbian-born American)
He created alternating current.
And he had interesting hair:
Marie Curie (1867-1934, Polish-born French)
She discovered the radioactivity of thorium and co-discovered radium and polonium.
And she had interesting hair:
Albert Einstein (1879-1955 German-born American)
He explained the Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect, contributed to the theory of atomic spectra, and formulated theories of special and general relativity.
And he had interesting hair:
Niels Bohr (1885-1962, Danish)
He contributed to quantum theory and to the theory of nuclear reactions and nuclear fission.
And he had interesting hair:
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961, Austrian)
He contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics and formulated the Schrödinger wave equation.
And he had interesting hair:
Louis de Broglie (1892-1987, French)
He predicted wave properties of the electron.
And he had interesting hair:
Richard Feynman (1918-1988, American)
He co-developed quantum electrodynamics and created a new formalism for practical calculations by introducing a graphical method called Feynman diagrams.
And he had interesting hair:
Makato Kobayashi (1944-Present, Japanese)
He contributed to the theoretical understanding of CP-violation and co-discovered the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks.
And he has interesting hair:
Edward Witten (1951-Present, American)
He made fundamental contributions to manifold theory, string theory, M-theory, and the theory of supersymmetric quantum mechanics, and is generally considered the greatest theoretical physicist in the world.
The things he has thought of are super cool.
And he has interesting hair:
Everyone should have a favorite physicist.
An easy way to determine who your favorite physicist is is to choose one based on his or her hairstyle.
Who is your favorite physicist?




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