The second excited eigenstate of the breath mint is not high enough to overcome the potential barrier of garlic sauce.

You know you're a nerd when you start talking about normal everyday things in jargon terms from your respective areas of expertise. It happened to me several times today.

We went to a kebab shop on Glebe Point Road for lunch after sitting for the PHYS2012 exam. Drool. Best. Kebab. Ever. Yes, good kebabs do exist. But yes, as good as garlic sauce tastes, it hangs around like a bad smell. Erm-- yeah. So we passed around the mints and gum and, well, I'm glad I chose the half strength garlic sauce. The full strength stuff is ghastly. And no number of mints can get rid of it.

And here's the nerdism. Nik made the comment that the walls of the garlic sauce potential well were infinite, and no energy eigenstate of a mint is high enough to overcome the potential barrier, nor is it possibly to quantum tunnel through its walls. Oh dear.

Another instance of jargon-speak came up in a conversation I had not long after. I asked someone if they'd bought an iPod Nano that he'd had his heart set on, and he replied quite sullenly:

"No, the Supply Bill was blocked in the Senate."

Boom tish (reference to The Dismissal, the thirtieth anniversary of which, incidently, falls on Friday).

Meanwhile, I've been watching Midnight Oil's 1985 Goat Island concert on ABC2. Now that's another one of my favourite bands that I'll never see play live. Hmm. Peter Garrett hasn't changed very much at all. Of course, now he's the Member for Kingsford Smith instead of the windmill-armed rockstar of twenty years ago. I'm still not sure how Alex is taking his defection to the ALP - Alex being an avid fan of the 'Oils and also a hardcore Lib voter. Ahh well. Must suck to vote for John.


Listening to:
Title: Dreamworld
Artist: Midnight Oil
Album/station: Diesel And Dust (1987)
Length: 3.36