"Burstein, Michael A - Reality Check" - читать интересную книгу автора (Burstein Michael A)

"HeТs what, four months old now?"

"Five months." David took another forkful of salad. "How was your shabbat?"

"Oh, pretty good. Seth and I stayed at home, hid under the bed." She
smiled.

David nodded. "IТve had weeks like that."

"So what are you working on?" Judith asked.

"Nothing much," David said, immediately followed by, "Well, this is
interesting." He picked a reprint from a stack on his desk and passed it
over to Judith. "Just got these today from Physical Review Letters. I did
the work about nine months ago, but the paper just got published. Help
yourself to one."

Judith put her fork down on the paper plate and read the title and author
of the paper aloud. "СHigh-Energy Consequences of the Many-Worlds
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. By David R. Strock, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.Т" She rolled her eyes at David. "Oh, yes, real
interesting."

David smiled back. "OK, I admit, itТs probably not going to shake the world
outside of my field. And I know it has no applications to your work on
carЦcarboЦ"

"Carbosilane dendrimers." Judith smiled. It got a lot easier to pronounce
the name of a material when you worked with it all the time.

David smiled back. "Right. Come to think of it, it has no applications at
all from what I can tell. But it was fun to do."

"Fun. Well, thatТs why we got into science in the first place, isnТt it,"
Judith said, more as a flat statement than a question. She put the paper
back on his desk and continued eating.

"Well, yeah, fun," David murmured. He took a good, long look at his friend.
"Judith, is something on your mind?"

She put her fork down and stared at her food. "I donТt know. ItТs just
thatЦI donТt seem to be getting anywhere. Four years of grad school and my
project seems no nearer to completion than it did at the beginning. Dennis
is talking about lining up a job for me after I get my Ph.D., but then he
has me working on stuff for his projects, not for my own. The equipment he
has me working on is outmoded, and breaks down half the time, and when I
point this out to him, all he tells me to do is fix it. I just feel like
IТm treading water, going nowhere." She looked up at him and smiled weakly.
"IТm sorry to dump on you like this."