The next Categorically Not! is tomorrow! Recall my post on the Categorically Not! series of events held at the Santa Monica Art Studios. Here is K.C. Cole's teaser:
Resistance. You can't leave home without it. Try walking without resistance and you might as well be in a mine field of banana peels. Cars slide right off the road. You can forget lifting weights, or even lifting food to your mouth on a fork. You can't talkâ€"or blow dry your hair. And it's not just the physical world: Growing up is all a matter of resistance, as is a good deal of progress in politics, science and art. No matter what realm you're in, you can't move forward without pushing back. For this month's Categorically Not!, USC physicist Stephan Haas will talk about how resistance reveals the hidden quantum properties of matter behind such mysterious effects as superconductivityâ€"knowledge that could lead ...
