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[quesarah]

What does one do for a living when one's singular passion is to understand how everything works?

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[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Make trebuchets out of paperclips.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yes, but someone's already got that covered.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Thank god for that, is all I can say.

Have you thought about founding your own religion perhaps?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Has it worked thus far for you?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Not so well, but I've never really thrown myself into it, it's more something other people have forced upon me.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

That's true. The little thing about resembling Jesus will do that, I suppose.

I could be rather good at founding my own religion. Or taking over the world. Or both.

If I could only find some decent henchpersons.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

It's the sort of thing where sometimes I half think that if my ego picked it up and ran with it, we could all wind up in a very strange place indeed. :)

And hencpeople is the secret, you can't do everything yourself, you need a good group of people to delegate to.

[ignis.livejournal.com]

engineer

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

At this point in my life, I'm becoming more interested in Things of the metaphysical rather than physical nature. But up 'til now, I've very much been a "yes let's take it apart to see how it ticks" sort.

[ignis.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_of_Physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%2C_Escher%2C_Bach:_an_Eternal_Golden_Braid

maybe start with those two books?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Interesting.

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

Dismantle things. Duh.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

But what about things that aren't easily dismantled, like spacetime and reality and such?

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

Supervillains are always trying to dismantle those kinds of things.

Ever think of something in that field? Can you gloat? Do you have henchmen?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I can in fact gloat, I do it well. And I'm currently in the market for a couple of good men to hench, but it's so hard to find good help these days. I get to the part of the interview about digging up bodies and they inevitably run screaming from the room.

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

Start with something easy, like... people!

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that. ;)

[mycorethoughts.livejournal.com]

My vote, aside from the metaphysical, is astrophysics. If I had the mind and the wherewithal to get through a doctorate, that's what I'd go for.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

That would be so much fun! I've just finished watching the NOVA series "Elegant Universe" and loved it. I'm about a third through Brian Greene's book of the same name.