Perked up today

So today I'm some what better, and it's been a bit of an easy day. Started out this morning in labs demonstrating, running a workshop on some concepts with regards to the visible spectra emission of elements, and how it shows quantisation. In addition the students got to perform the experiments analogous to the same ones run by Neils Bohr right here at Manchester, back in the day of UMIST. There was lots of mathematical manipulation of formulas, and a number fo the first years found it difficult but persisted accompanied  by my perverse enthusiasm for the subject. Though were highlights of some students getting to grips with all of it with ease.

Felt somewhat fullfilled.

Later I had a meeting with Ria and Majeed, Ria being the third year student that I and Majeed are supervising. It seems like she is grasping the concepts in our research quickly, maybe not the maths but then that will come with time. All in all quite enjoyable and it's bits like this, when you can see a student comprehending just how cool and ground breaking the research is, that make my PhD ever more satisfying.

Finished of the validation of the morphy code, and so far everything looks fine. Plus I've got roleplay tonight as usual, so I have another chance to chill out.

Though it was one of those days when I walking about and just kind of in awe. firstly watching new students making their first true leaps into science and what it all means, then later more of the same but on another level where the student was learning that a lot of concepts taken for granted in chemistry are false. That and listening to so much Void Construct has just served to lighten my mood and allow me to just marvel at the mathematics of the science I am doing.

I did get asked at the house party by

neuromantix

 if science had too much faith in all its formula and theorums and methods and was just as much like numerology.

I of course arguedhow far in certain respects science was from numerology, but in others was in danger to being just as dogmatic. I of course pulled out the old Platonic reality argument among others and the discussion drew on.

Though there are times when you are writing code that simulates molecules that you sit back and have to just look at the world and go wow. This of course was all emphasised by a certain article on the beeb today. Plus I also had a nice discussion with an organic PhD student who was also demonstrating, all about the golden spiral and chaos theory and so forth.

So it seems I'm on the up again.


Now of course in typical fashion picture time.