Contributed by Charlie Harris. I am willing to bet you never gave it a whole lot of thought, but Physics is not a very nice science. It has a really good reputation, that that is where all the really smart people go, but that is because other sciences like Chemistry do not get their due. Physics and Chemistry sit next to each other like New York and New Jersey. All the really interesting cutting edge stuff seems to go on in Physics.
Chemistry has a bad reputation, in large part because, like New Jersey, it smells bad.
It is kind of like driving down the Jersey Turnpike. You know there is something that smells really bad. You know that it is a smell that would not come out of Mother Nature unless you were torturing her in some really unnatural way. I mean, Heaven knows there are some really bad smells that ARE natural, but not so bad as some of the stuff on the Jersey Turnpike. You only get smells like that by taking dead dinosaur remains, and pumping them up from their graves, and subjecting them to extreme heat, and sending the THE MT VOID Page 2 gasses through pipes.