things I want at my funeral

Apr 02, 2012 20:39

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed ( Read more... )

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fakely_mctest April 3 2012, 01:03:06 UTC
No problem. I found it very touching and I'm glad it was helpful.

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delyn14 April 3 2012, 01:11:44 UTC
LOVE.

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fakely_mctest April 3 2012, 01:14:07 UTC
Seriously I got to this part "...may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever," and I was like OKAY I NEED A MOMENT.

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super_nuova April 4 2012, 03:52:53 UTC
This is perfect. Thanks for posting it.

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fakely_mctest April 4 2012, 20:20:14 UTC
No prob. I had an instant "I like this" reaction and wanted to preserve it.

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