Quote: "CATACLYSMAL" (a.GLASS 2017)
“Ok...” Elly Jansky sits quietly on the toilet inside the cubicle holding the pen like apparatus up. “...False negative, false negative...third test here, here we go...Negative! Three times in row. Phew!” She wipes, standing pulling up her knickers straightening out her skirt, placing the pregnancy test back into her handbag she exhales staring ahead at the closed cubicle door. “Good afternoon, my name is Elly Jansky, I am a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Before I start this presentation today, this is a true story, I tested my self just moments ago to see if I was pregnant...Looking for the hormone chorionic gonadotropin that if detected in my urine would indicate that I'm pregnant, very much like the beginning of planetary and solar systems creation...the distribution of matter within its compressed formation, given the right environment, can develop into...” Suddenly the main toilet doors open, she quickly exits the cubicle and smiles at the cleaner who begins to spray and wipe down the sink areas. Jansky looks briefly in the mirror checking her hair and makeup. She leaves the female toilets, promptly walking towards the main backstage area of the conference, eyeing a man with a headset microphone and computer tablet. He nods, indicating for Jansky to ascend the stairs to the main stage she hands him her handbag, in which he places into a personal safe to the side of the small stair case, closing the safe door. He then hands Jansky a small microphone head set, placing it around her ear, affixing the microphone so it's just above her chin, she adjusts the receiver so it sits at the back of her skirt. Checking that the microphone is ready to be activated, he raises his right hand showing five minutes. Jansky closes her eyes and breaths slowly. “Ok,” she whispers to herself, making her way to the main stage.
The crowd claps. Stepping onto the stage, Jansky walks to the middle of the presentation area, she turns and faces the crowd.
“My name is Elly Jansky, I am a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Before I start this talk today, I would like to quote the great and late Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who once said, “I believe I can safely say that that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” With that been said, and I must emphasize what the late Professor was implying, was not a defeatist assumption, rather it was within the context of the vast mysteries of what quantum physics is, despite the advancements that we have made, particularly with particle experiments here on Earth. Mysteries are still abound."
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