http://www.mlahanas.de/Physics/Bios/JohnRobertSchrieffer.html

and go to the bottom of the page.

repeat this over and over " it's only a game" you will be fine in no time.

[hero in computer game is...]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2007/1
1/14/scisurf114.xml

or

http://snipurl.com/1tzzz
Socks

I'm sure Richard Feynman would have kicked a.s with a gravity gun,
MP5; and he'd have done the accompanying music on his bongo drums at
the same time.

Does that come as a shock to you?   Didn't you read the manual that came
with the original game, from Dr. Kleiner?

Any particular reason you crossposted this to a couple of science and
physics newsgroups, except for the purpose of trolling?

Way too much time and thought put into a VIDEO GAME character.

Matt

It looks like the only thing weak here is your closed minded
stereotype of what a theoretical physicist *SHOULD* be in a video
game, not what they *ARE* in reality. A lot of young theoretical
physicists these days are very athletic, as well as brilliant, like
this guy in the news recently, that is developing the Grand Unified
Theory. BTW, he splits his time between Hawaii surfing and Lake Tahoe
snowboarding. He is a real life Gordon Freeman.

His website
http://sifter.org/~aglisi/Surfing/surfing.html
http://sifter.org/~aglisi/Surfing/G_honolua_big.jpg
http://sifter.org/~aglisi/Surfing/G_parking_big.jpg
http://sifter.org/~aglisi/Surfing/carveabasin.JPG
http://sifter.org/~aglisi/Surfing/sky.gif

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311952,00.html
A surfer dude with no fixed address may be this century's Einstein.

A. Garrett Lisi, a physicist who divides his time between surfing in
Maui and teaching snowboarding in Lake Tahoe, has come up with what
may be the Grand Unified Theory.

That's the "holy grail" of physics that scientists have been searching
for ever since Albert Einstein presented his General Theory of
Relativity nearly 100 years ago.

Even more remarkable is that Lisi, who has a Ph.D. but no permanent
university affiliation, solves the problem without resorting to exotic
dimensions, string theory or exceptionally complex mathematics.

A successful Grand Unified Theory would use a series of equations to
show how the four fundamental forces of nature -- gravity,
electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces -- relate to
each other.

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force, which controls
radioactivity, were linked more than 30 years ago, and some progress
has been made with linking them to the strong nuclear force, which
binds protons together in the atomic nucleus.

But gravity has always been an outlier. Not only have all attempts to
link gravity to the other three forces failed, but physicists still
can't agree on what gravity actually is or how it works.

Lisi solves this by using the E8 lattice, an eight-dimensional
structure visualized earlier this year in a widely circulated paper.

He noticed that several of the equations used to describe the lattice
matched those he'd come up with trying to resolve the four fundamental
forces.

"The moment this happened my brain exploded with the implications and
the beauty of the thing," Lisi tells New Scientist magazine. "I
thought: 'Holy crap, that's it!'"

By mapping known subatomic particles, plus 20 imaginary ones, onto the
248 points of the E8 lattice, and then rotating the lattice in a
computer model, Lisi shows how the particles elegantly combine to form
three of the four forces.

The imaginary ones combine to form gravity, for which subatomic
particles have only been theorized.

"Some incredibly beautiful stuff falls out of Lisi's theory," David
Ritz Finkelstein of Georgia Tech tells New Scientist. "I think that
this must be more than coincidence and he really is touching on
something profound."

But Professor Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford tells Britain's Daily
Telegraph that "there seem to be a lot of things still to fill in."

For his part, Lisi self-mockingly calls his finding "An Exceptionally
Simple Theory of Everything," and downplays the suggestion that it may
be the Grand Unified Theory.

"The theory is very young, and still in development," he tells the
Daily Telegraph. "Right now, I'd assign a low (but not tiny)
likelihood to this prediction."

He hopes the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, currently being built on
the Swiss-French border will find some of his 20 imaginary gravity-
related particles.

"This is an all-or-nothing kind of theory -- it's either going to be
exactly right, or spectacularly wrong," Lisi tells New Scientist. "I'm
the first to admit this is a long shot. But it ain't over till the LHC
sings."

My experience is that many of the university pencil-neck nerds train
on martial arts. Maybe not muay thai and krav maga, but more
"spiritual" arts like  aikido, traditional karate, taijutsu, different
kung fu styles, traditional archery etc.

Maybe that does not make them Green Berets or SEALs, but anyway... ;)

Eh.

You might as well ask why it is that the hazard suit used by science
researchers at a particle physics institute has a HUD that can
interface with all manner of military weapon systems. (I personally
think that because of a contract low bid, the government ended up with
more OpFor Combat Vest processors than they could use, so they just
stuck them in the hazard suit without bothering to remove the military
code.)

James Gates the super-symmetry expert and frequent commentator
on PBS science shows has goofy hair like Einstein.  It hangs from
the sides dog ears.   I guess goofy hair must be the symbol
of a theroetical physicist :-)

Yes-but does an electrician earn enough money to buy HL2 (a game with a
theoretical physicist). Does a theoretical physicist earn enough money to
buy Super Mario (a game with a plumber). Paradox?