Is Lisa Randall the hottest physicist alive?

Newai

Amy Mainzer gets my vote:

nismaratwork

I'm just thrilled that physics has two women who can show young girls that someone they'd like to look like is someone they can also aspire to think them. To be fair, there are more than these two.

That said, you need to expand your fantasy life... menage a un, menage a deux, menage a tr- <THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN SELF-CENSORED... so that your friendly neighborhood mentors don't have to!>... you see where I'm going with the ghee and the strips of lace, right? Yeah, you can, you dirty dog.

lisab

+1

nismaratwork

So she's brilliant, AND gorgeous... neither should detract from the other. I don't see a lot of hunky guys in Physics either... it's a minority all over. What are the odds of being a top scientist AND having the genetics to be beautiful, not just pretty? Talk about a cosmic home run between looks, circumstances, education, and natural intelligence.

DevilsAvocado

Oh come on! I count no less than 22 very sexy mustaches in this historical picture (+Marie Curie):





The question is: Why has "this picture" not changed that much in a hundred years...

jobyts

I watched the video. For some reason, whenever she says string theory, I hear it as g-string.

nismaratwork

Oh good one.

As for why the picture hasn't changed... well, it's taken time to place generations of women into a particular role, and it's going to take time and effort to undo that damage of millenia. It takes time to disseminate information, and in a way we're working with an initial pool which not only fails to include most women, but excludes them in a variety of ways. We need a few more generation of women becoming teachers of high-end STEM subjects before that picture really starts to change much.

nismaratwork

We're guys jobyts... that means every thought we have takes the following path:

Sensory Input->Brain Stem->Brain->Dick->Brain->Balls->Brain.

It's a circuit that places undue emphasis on what our dangling bits have to 'think' of matters, and polls them even when you're looking at say... food, or a flower, or the sky, or nothing.

Ah being a guy, it's a joy and a bit of a burden. *braces for contradiction by PF sisterhood*

DevilsAvocado

Yeah, I guess you’re right. It just that it has taken so long... and not that much has change... If you look at this picture of Amy Mainzer and the four "WISE guys"*, she is the only woman ALONE, exactly as Marie Curie!



Something must clearly be wrong, and I think we all lose in the long run. My experience is that 50/50 mixed workplaces works best...

I’m a man, there’s no use in pretending; I drop-dead too when I see a very beautiful and extremely intelligent woman. There’s not much one can do about it.

But what if our "behavior" as men, has something to do with "the first problem"...?


* Nothing bad about these scientists, they are all great.

DevilsAvocado

Oh no! Don’t do it! It’ not an avatar – it’s a hot dog!!


(Goes to Lame Jokes?? )

nismaratwork

Is it just me, or does the fellow on the far left have a haircut that is uncomfortably, "Hitler-esque"? Maybe it's just the angle. Anyway, we're lucky to have the women we do have, but yeah, it's hard to imagine that we're not losing out on a huge portion of our population.

DevilsAvocado

Kurdt

I thought i was the hottest physicist alive. :huff:

rhody

Nismara,

You need a cold shower... and/or this... the bike that is... see thumbnail...

Rhody...

P.S.

I predict a few more posts, and... this thread is a goner for sure...

Ivan Seeking

The problem is that men are service oriented. We are very giving souls. We like to share.

Evo

Men are playthings, if they also have brains, it's icing on the cake.

Ivan Seeking

A very beautiful woman once walked up and hit on me because, according to her, I was reading a physics book. That has to be one for the record books!

I would prefer to think she just wanted me for my body...

This was BT, of course. [before Tsu]