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EdieMammon — Your Poison of Choice Chapter 14 Part I
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20 years, his love passed on 20 years ago; and the poor thing had to suffer. 
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Aww, the son that he never had, who might have been another Kooky
Hmm, what would Wolfie name him; it would definitely be after a scientist and not a musician... AH! Erwin, of course!
A neutrino that suddenly gains a charge and spirals, hmm, that's a fairy tale indeed. If such a thing were actually observed, scientists all over would have a conniption! The whole Standard Model, in the toilet!
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Some are denied a proper funeral, while others, like Wolfie's son, are denied a proper birth. Maybe that goes for neutrinoes as well.
The apparent cruelty of nature must haunt even the dryest scientific mind, don't you think? But it was rather nice of Clawdia to let Wolfgang bury little Erwin in his family crypt. I went ahead and guessed that deceased von Bachsteins are laid to rest in Vienna, but the cemetery above is based on the one closest to my home. It has a section near the chapel devoted to those who didn't make it into the world. Some of the monuments go back to the 30s. Sounds macabre and even unnecessary, but it must be nice for the parents to have a grave to visit, and hopefully, closure. Said graves are the most well-tended. That's both precious and incredibly sad.
I was just going to take a nap and then send you a Note regarding the naming, but I woke up to find you did it already 
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You're welcome
The background looks pretty... Alpine though. Although Vienna is not quite in the Alps, but they're right nearby-ish.
I think I once heard about my grandmother I think arranging to be buried next to a friend of hers.... or was it a sister? If it was a sister then it was my great aunt that died when I was 11... but now my grandmother's dead too, I think buried in South Dakota. Most people wish to be buried where they were born, or wherever they considered home, but do some people put it in their will to be buried off in some outlandish place that they've never been to but maybe always wanted to go to but never got to go to while they were alive?
Eh, kind of. The existence of neutrinoes has only been inferred - a long time back physicists noticed that when a radioactive atom decays, if you calculate the momentum (that's just mass times velocity... or Planck constant divided by wavelength if you're a massless lightspeed photon) of each of the visible decay products, well the "After" picture is not the same as the "Before" picture. This violates a pretty big law of physics, which is why somebody named - guess - Wolfgang Pauli came up with the idea that maybe there is some tiny undetectable particle that takes off with the rest of the momentum. People thought this sounded ridiculous at first, but nowadays it's pretty well-accepted that neutrinoes exist, and are raining out of the sun like crazy, yet are utterly harmless; the odds that one of them will interact with a proton anywhere in your body, let alone interfere with your DNA and give you cancer are... astronomical, you need a humongous tank of water deep DEEP underground just to detect one every once in a while. A lot is still not known about them however. For instance, people can't seem to agree whether they travel at the speed of light or just below or even faster (a big story about that a little while ago but that was prematurely overblown), whether they have mass or not, some people think they might be what dark matter is made of, or part of it anyway, and apparently they come in different "flavors" that they switch between which is why the underground water tanks don't detect QUITE as many as predicted. But those curly tracks that you see in a bubble or cloud chamber are probably either electrons or positrons; they curl in different directions. If the track seems to split or take a sharp turn and curl more tightly that means it's a muon or something that decayed into an electron and a neutrino but it's only the electron whose trail you see. So you see, the neutrino was discovered not because they found it there but because of what they DIDN'T find there.
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Some desire to have their ashes placed in a meaningful location, which is better than a burial in the wild, for instance, where the remains are vulnerable to predation. You know that gag in movies with urns containing Granny Rosie's ashes that stand on the mantle for years and years? 
Erwin is an adorable name for a little Koopa 
On some level neutrinoes probably, possibly, interferes with the particles we consist of, among them those pesky free radicals. I couldn't say. I'm not a physicist, and can't really stay in one place in a conversation about physics for very long before my mind starts to wander. Or would it be me standing still and the conversing parties moving? The universe, man. Full of mysteries.
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It must be legal in Austria though, since Hedy Lamarr had her ashes scattered through Vienna Woods. She was an inventor, her most notable invention being a frequency-hopping technique in collaboration with some guy who wanted to create some movie about a mechanical ballet (now who does that sound like? 
Now that I named him it's even sadder that he never made it 
Although they very rarely cause nuclear reactions in atomic nuclei, neutrinos do reportedly exhibit scattering when they pass through matter, much as light does. This can only mean that a little bit of their energy is transmitted into your body. Does it have a harmful effect? Well, since neutrinos are pretty much pouring into every corner of the universe every second, the flux only greater than normal if say a supernova happened say x lightyears away x years ago, even if they do there isn't much that can be done about it. I'd be more worried about the beta decay from the potassium in that banana.
Some (admittedly fringe) theorists don't even believe neutrinos exist. That would mean the Standard Model is all wrong, but considering general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot be reconciled with the current theory something has got to be wrong somewhere. Are the physicists overestimating the precision of their measuring equipment, leading to the discrepancies between theory and experiment? Might the discrepancies be caused by part of some as of yet undiscovered theory that might resolve everything? How deep would one have to dig through a CENTURY of research to find all that out?
Honestly, my mind wanders too when I sit through a physics lecture. I can't very easily follow what people are saying unless I already thoroughly understand it, and the only way I can do that is to read it and figure out how it works inside my head. When it comes to graduate level physics (undergrad is a joke) the math is all very clear to me, but they don't do a very good job of explaining the LOGIC; why this and that is that way, which requires more reading than I am capable of doing all at once without wanting to go look up something else. That's why I'm leaning more toward pure math these days. Physics is a mess. One variation of some quote that is usually misattributed to Einstein goes that you don't really understand a scientific discovery, or that it's not worthwhile, if you cannot explain it to a child. Most of the deeper stuff cannot be explained period; you just sort of have to "grok" it on your own, and even then you will feel like you don't thoroughly understand it. Most physicists will admit that they don't understand their research thoroughly; wonder what about the ones that don't but think they do... What's more, most of the stuff that's sold to the public - neutrinos, particle physics, the Higgs boson discovered at CERN, STRING THEORY, cosmology and most of everything else that has to do with space, politically-motivated-and-funded research on GLOBAL FUCKING WARMING cannot be applied in inventions or research that might help humanity, and, as interesting as it may be to study, I'd have to say no more relevance when it comes to doing good for society than pop stars and football shows. Have you heard of the really exciting stuff - condensed matter physics such as superconductors and superfluids; what happens when stuff gets really cold? Materials science; how to make stuff that has unique magnetic or optical properties, and how to make it cheaply? How better batteries and other energy sources might be made? Nanotechnology; why don't we have cancer-or-AIDS-fighting nanobots yet? Quantum computing? How computer chips are designed; what can be done to computer hardware to improve its performance? (don't worry about that; the market loves hi-technical cellphones and computers so that stuff sure as hell gets innovated real quick, just take their time on the energy source that is cheaper than oil...)
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That taffy-haired little Schatzi never got to save up for that UFO, either. You know, it's hard to keep this part from becoming sappy, but how else can Iggy prove Wolfgang's more selfish motives? A little mushy stuff is very, very necessary, I tells you.
Ludwig's mother, while still very refined and elegant in every way, is a heavy-set lady. Isn't that where Ludwig gets it?
After some googling I found out that Mr. Einstein said something in the lines of "knowledge is limited, but creativity encircles the world". It's often used as rhetoric in protests against the conformity engine that is public education.
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Ludwig gets it from both sides; Bowser ain't exactly a Koopa mens size 0 himself. Heavy-setness is a more desirable trait in Koopas than in modern humans, as most of the weight tends to be muscle, and Koopas are also less likely to suffer diabetes or other health complications from having spare weight than humans are. Not sure where Wolfgang gets his lank figure from though. Probably partly because he is always fidgeting, and probably also the medicine reduces his appetite, or gives him such dry mouth that he doesn't want to eat anything that isn't liquid. That squishy piece of bread suddenly looks less appetizing when it can blot up your entire mouthful of saliva
Ironically, every school has a picture of Mr. Einstein somewhere, usually inside a physics class, with the quote "Imagination is more important than knowledge". I have to agree up until the point that lack of knowledge hinders your ability to do great things with your imagination. Imagination without knowledge is little kids playing in the sandbox, but knowledge without imagination is... well, scibrats
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everything here is drawn so pretty
clawdia and wolfgang are so sweet looking, with their soft kind features along with the fluffy wavy hair, and the colors are gentle yet bright. all and all its just really lovely to look at.
and this child, what was her name? and does that book say fairy tails for nerds?
though i'm also curious to the means of her death. i'm a little hard pressed to believe it was of natural causes
oh, and i have to ask, is clawdia just painting a sympathetic story, or did she genuinely love wolfgang, despite how she used him?
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No, I think Clawdia knows she's doomed anyway and decides to come clean. It's unlikely that she loved him as much as herself and revenge. He loved her, though. And love made him stupid.
The third panel shows what could have been, since Wolfgang wished for little Koopas of his own more than any award or sheepskin. When Clawdia became pregnant he thought all of his dreams were coming true. The baby died before it was born, when Clawdia came down with a mysterious (hmm...) illness, which broke Wolfie's heart. Maybe that's why he started as a pediatrician. To make sure new mothers stay healthy and that their little Koopas arrive safely into the world. Their child was male, by the way. Despite the hair
Yes, that book is "Fairy Tales for Nerds" by Ignatius B. Poindexterton. Since it was first edition it came with a round-cornered bookplate and an autographed pocket protector.
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ah i see, i misinterpreted it. i saw the narration for the third panel and thought "her" was referring to the child not clawdia, and that along with the background led me to believe that the child was a girl.
oh dear, i just realized i used "tails" instead of "tales" so much for appearing educated
you know, i really love your portrayal of wolfie, he's such a gentle loving koopa
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Thank you
But I think my fondness for him makes him a lot sweeter than he really is. The real deal, which I can't hope to emulate is an inventor gone mad, not an eccentric gentleman. The "real" Wolfgang would be more likely to be a resident of the Institute and not a leading physician.
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