Tiny Dancer
A few very special physicists study the forces and effects on the body that are associated with dancing. They tend to do things like use the terms “torque” and “inertia” in the same sentence as “arabesque” and “allegro,” thus making themselves sound both extremely cultured and twice as incomprehensible as normal physicists. Dance physicists, I am told (by the Internet; I fail, sadly, to know any of my own) ask questions such as “How does the ballerina appear to float during this gran jetè when I know that her center of mass must travel in a parabolic path?†They have what may be the coolest job in the universe.
I would like to send a dance physicist a photograph of Maddy, and ask him or her to answer the question “How does Maddy appear to have fifteen limbs plus hair in the air, all twisting and turning around the perfect support of her sneakered foot, when I know she has only the normal number of arms and legs and has never taken lessons from a whirling dervish?”
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