Though I couldn't exactly tell you why. In my further adventures into A Short History of Nearly Everything, I'm amazed to find out how little we know about some of the most fundamental things: I'm not speaking about the universe on some large cosmological relativistic scale, nor am I talking about atoms in some small quantum mechanical scale. There's still a lot of work to be done in the realm of geophysics, especially with regards to deep sea ecology and the composition of the earth, and also with the evolution of early hominids and the ascent of some tool-bearing chimp who seemed to be the velociraptor of the African savannah.

The study of physics would have been a totally different lifestyle choice for me, though it seems striking that the community is so vibrant and would never suffer from a lack of new blood. While at Tech, there seemed to be a constant infusion of young willing and able talent ready to dive headfirst into a life of academia, particularly in the obfuscatia of higher physics. (That was a made up word, coined right now on this blog on this date by me. My contribution to the scientific community is complete; my legacy secure. I'm not sure what obfuscatia is, really; it has kind of an obscure meaning.)