Sweet Dreams.

Having problems sleeping? Do you lie awake at night thinking about all the things you need to do? Does your bed-mate steal all the covers and wallop you in the head with a stray elbow, thereby making it impossible to continuously sleep for more than one hour intervals? Are you too embarrassed to have Sophie Kinsella's Can You Keep A Secret? or Tom Clancy's Without Remorse on your bed side table?

I have a solution for you:

My Thesis.

Guaranteed to put you to sleep. When bound, it makes for an excellent shield against wayward elbows and packs its own form of whoop-ass when appropriately applied. Also it makes you look all physics-y having it on your night stand.

If you actually do read it, I do not want to hear about a single typo. Should you find one, keep it to yourself, otherwise I might be inclined to hunt you down and kill you for cruelty.

A moment of schmaltz: Although not actually mentioned in the acknowledgments, I would also like to say thank you to all the QD readers who shared their own thesis-writing struggles as I went through mine. It did make me feel a lot better to know I am not the only one who has trouble formulating a grammatically correct sentence and a faulty simulation is not nearly as bad as it gets. The support and words of comfort made me feel all warm and fuzzy. So thank you. Ok, feel free to barf now and move on.

* Thanks, Helge, for letting me know it's available. It had to go through SLAC patent review process before being ready for public consumption. Surprisingly, it doesn't look like you can patent a 2-mile electron accelerator as a convenient method for producing plasma. Drat.

Comments

[yut]

>barf<

[hack]

How much to option the movie rights?

[Jesper Dalberg]

Thanks alot Caolionn.

From skimming through it, im sure it will make an interesting read as soon as I understand at least some of it ;)

[Michael Bremner]

Pfft, I bet people fall asleep faster reading mine than reading yours!

Did you put it on the arxiv yet? I'm not sure if I will...

[Helge]

Well I think your thesis is really good to fall asleep. I think even printing it out, is enough to fall asleep. The one I took a picture of, is still lying there.

[Caolionn]

Hack: If you're buying ... I'm selling.

Mick: I was not planning on putting it on arxiv. I figure SLAC gives easy access for readers, no need to put it anywhere else.

[Marc]

I was wondering do you have any interest in Nanophotonics as well as Superluminal Propagation and the inherent Relativistic issues that would involve?

I think I commented before on your blog
not sure if it went through though.

Best,

Marcus Poulin
nanophotonic@comcast.net

[Caolionn]

Sorry, Marcus, I am not the person to talk about Nanophotonics. My obsession with Nano only extends to the latest iPod, not the actual science.