{"id":3174,"date":"2009-10-12T23:27:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T03:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2009-10-12T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T03:27:47","slug":"missed-opportunity-quantum-to-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/missed-opportunity-quantum-to-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed Opportunity: Quantum To Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I had been moving back to the KW area at the end of September, rather than the end of November, I certainly would have been hitting some of the events at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/program\">Quantum To Cosmos<\/a> conference. I hope some of my pals in the area are planning to check it out. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be able to stream the lectures, and several of them seem things I&#8217;m not going to want to miss. There are lots there that interest me, and which I&#8217;ll probably eventually get around to watching, but a couple that I&#8217;ll probably watch right away, and would likely have gone to include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/schedule&#038;lecture_id=7731\">The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/schedule&#038;lecture_id=7737\">Does Reality Have a &#8220;Genetic&#8221; Basis?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/schedule&#038;lecture_id=8006\">Seeing Science Through Fiction<\/a>&#8211;Stephenson!!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/schedule&#038;lecture_id=7750\">Sense from Chaos: Controlling the Dynamic Networks of the Brain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess the lectures aren&#8217;t really a missed opportunity, since they will be available online, but the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/science_pub\">Science In The Pub<\/a> track (which seems to be at the Huether!) seems tragic to miss.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/film_festival\">the film festival<\/a>. I used to be a pretty consistent regular at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princesscinemas.com\/\">the Princess<\/a> back in the day (and I expect to pick that practice up again in the new year), but this selection in particular has some very topical appeal. I mean, I&#8217;ll usually take a chance to see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metropolis_(film)\">Metropolis<\/a> in a theatre, and I&#8217;ve been thinking Sarah might like E.T., and so on, but the real draw for me right now would be the chance to see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s\">M\u00e9li\u00e8s<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_Voyage_dans_la_lune\">Le Voyage Dans La Lune<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to this week I&#8217;d never heard of M\u00e9li\u00e8s, or this movie&#8211;and apparently I&#8217;d been missing a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_Voyage_dans_la_lune#In_popular_culture\">pop culture in jokes<\/a> as a consequence. Until I happened to see a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazenhussies.net\/goldstein\/\">Lisa Goldstein<\/a>&#8216;s Nebula finalist story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/nebulas09\/darkrooms.shtml\">Dark Rooms<\/a>. Having read it, I now have a healthy curiosity about the man&#8217;s work. (Please allow me to take a moment to plug Goldstein&#8217;s work&#8211;I think I have everything she&#8217;s written, and it&#8217;s all pretty great. In particular you should read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Red-Magician-Lisa-Goldstein\/dp\/076535912X\">The Red Magician<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allreaders.com\/Topics\/Info_34604.asp\">The Dream Years<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Tourists-Lisa-Goldstein\/dp\/0671675311\">Tourists<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Alchemists-Door-Lisa-Goldstein\/dp\/0765301512\/\">The Alchemist&#8217;s Door<\/a>, but all the novels are worth your time.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, missing the chance to see the movie for the first time in a theatre&#8211;in a dark room, as &#8217;twere&#8211;is a missed opportunity. I&#8217;m 100% sure I can go watch a bunch of Melies&#8217; movies on YouTube, but it would have been great to see it first in the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Part of my process for coming to terms with leaving Halifax is convincing myself that having access to this kind of event will be a big plus. Of course the scheduling could have been better here for that argument, but I suspect that the Perimeter Institute probably won&#8217;t only have one such conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">If I had been moving back to the KW area at the end of September, rather than the end of November, I certainly would have been hitting some of the events at the Quantum To Cosmos conference. I hope some of my pals in the area are planning to check it out. I&#8217;ll be able to stream the lectures, and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/missed-opportunity-quantum-to-cosmos\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[67,382,208,269,417],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-technology","tag-science","tag-science-fiction","tag-things-to-listen-to","tag-things-to-watch","tag-waterloo","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-Pc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}