Bill started an essay on quantum physics by quoting the Bible and the Doctor gave her 92%.
Poetry, physics: same thing.
Bill: my problematic fave who doesn’t quote sandwich and worse, starts academic essays off with quotes.
Oh gosh I love this detail.
THE COSMIC FAR ULTRAVIOLET BACKGROUND is nicked from this website, the ‘Blazar’ section:
Blazars are members of the family of active galactic nuclei and quasars, defined specifically by their strong optical Polarization and variability. These unique defining properties seemed mysterious and even paradoxical in the 1960s and 1970s, but now there is a growing consensus that their behaviour and their role among quasars is qualitatively understood. Many of the modern ideas started to emerge during an important meeting in 1978 (the Pittsburg Confernce on BL Lac Objects). This is a good place to pick up the historical thread.
BL Lac objects have historically been defined as point-like sources of optical radiation that show little or no line emission, and strong and variable brightness and polarization. Pittsburgh meeting participants made it clear that some nearby objects exhibit all of these properties, along with narrow emission lines of considerable strength. Because they did not seem fundamentally different from the original BL Lacs, they were generally accepted as members of the class.
Since she got 97%, we’ll assume that the plagiarism is not diegetic.
QUANTUM STATISTICS OF LIGHT comes from here:
Just over 100 years ago, physicists exploring the newly discovered atom found that the atomic world of electrons and protons is not just smaller than our familiar world of trees, balls, and automobiles, it is also fundamentally different in character. Objects in the atomic world obey different rules from those obeyed by a tossed ball or an orbiting planet. These atomic rules are so different from the familiar rules of everyday physics, so counterintuitive and unexpected, that it took more than 25 years of intense research to uncover them.
I appreciate that they put in some effort to make them realish things she could’ve been learning, though not too much effort.
and she knows some serious quantum astrophysics now, like maybe not the maths stuff but the concepts. take note.