Michio Kaku just had a great line in “Me and Isaac Newton” - a documentary I currently have out from Netflix. Here’s a quick review. And another, that explains more about the other scientists who are featured in this documentary.

These freakin’ brilliant people just astound me. I am filled with awe and admiration. Freakin’ theoretical physicist. Here’s his little bit of stuff I found pretty cool:

Some people come up to me and say, “Professor, what is the meaning of life?” And I tell them, “There is no equation out there that is going to give you the meaning of life.” We create meaning for our own life. We are self-made people. The meaning we find in life, we find ourselves. For me, that meaning of life was to find it in science.

Then he proceeds to talk about how poor his family was during his childhood and how they were all incarcerated in a concentration camp in California until 1946. He watched a lot of science fiction TV shows, but realized he’d never be the captain - but loved the look in the doctor’s eyes who could create rockets and rayguns through sheer force of intellect. Then he tried building an atom smasher in his parent’s garage… but only after he took out the trash.

There’s all sorts of shitty tension in my house right now. There was an argument and some low-blows were cast and now there are two sets of people not talking to one another, and it’s because of unfounded accusations and a refusal to communicate and talk and listen. I’m sooo angry. I’m not at the center of this one, but it’s so goddamn infantile and stupid, I can’t stand it.

I’ve been getting lots of wrong numbers on my cell phone lately - and at really odd hours… 2 and 4 in the morning, 9 on a Sunday morning… they don’t leave a voicemail, so they realize that it’s wrong. But geez - don’t you check the number before you call someone at 2 in the morning? However, they could be drunken misdials. I have to allow for that possibility.

OK. Back to work on paper. I’m still in brainstorming mode. There was an unplanned trip to Ikea with my brother earlier, so the game plan for today was thrown off a little. Ooops.