Hi Steve,

I found your blog post about physics & scenery, with the nice picture of San Francisco Bay, funny and oddly appropriate to my day. A few hours ago I was sitting in a rocking chair in front of a giant window at Seattle airport watching a beautiful sunset and reading a popular science book on Quantum Mechanics, and thinking that it’s a great way to be spending an evening working. Livin’ like a king!

(To answer the obvious questions: no, I don’t know why Seattle airport has rocking chairs. The book is for a course I’m developing for our new HHMI funded science literacy program, for which I am one of the guinea pigs. I was at the airport on my way to Walla Walla, where I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the NW section of the APS meeting, which I agreed to before realizing how hard it is to get to Walla Walla. It occurred to me, incidentally, that the seat was ideal, since it captures a chair’s hard, particle-like nature together with the gentle oscillations of a wave.)

best wishes,

R