Dark Matter Page #2

There's plenty of food here.

Please don't send any more.

I read in the papers

American kids watch

over 30 hours of TV every week.

And at 1 3 they're already doing "it".

Where do they find time?

- Those Americans are efficient.

Maybe they do homework

while watching TV and doing "it" too.

Our Liu Xing knows nothing but studying.

That boy's been putting in

a lot of all-nighters.

Come on, these kids are grateful

for whatever work I give them.

They come from a place where

astrology is considered a science,

and indoor plumbing a luxury.

Yeah, they've only got

2000 years of civilization on us.

I imagine they think

we are the barbarians.

Your mail.

- Thank you.

Besides, what do you know about it?

You've never even been to China.

I'm a theorist.

I don't have to actually go there.

I don't even like Chinese food.

METAL:

Get dressed right away.

I have to leave in 1 5 minutes

and you're taking tickets with Sarah.

No.

- Oh, Hal.

I just... Ill be glad

to pay for more ticket takers.

Oh, no, it's not about writing a check.

It's very important that you be there.

You're a patron of the arts.

Everybody's expecting you and

its not how I want to spend

my Saturday night.

Taking tickets and being

a big patron of the arts.

I have the Monkey King coming

all the way from Salt Lake City.

Ive seen Monkey Kings

from Beijing and Shanghai, so...

I just want to make a connection

with these new Chinese students.

Well, I just don't understand the need

you have to make a connection.

I'm kind of tired of connecting.

Im kind of connected out.

Okay.

I would like to propose a toast

to our wonderful performers.

Thank you, thank you.

And to our new Chinese students,

who have made their own journey west.

We'd like to welcome you to our country.

Cheers.

- Thank you.

Liu Xing, you should make a toast.

- Start with "On behalf".

On behalf of Chinese students,

so lucky to come to America,

the beautiful country.

May we all find our dream here.

- Hear, hear.

Therefore. Therefore.

- And therefore...

Therefore, we make this toast

to our new American friends.

Cheers. Up the bottoms.

Bottoms up. Yes, yes.

What's so funny?

You working tonight?

Yeah, this is my dinner.

Stuff yourself then.

- That's what Im doing.

Looking at the stars?

I'm looking at the Dark Matter.

Oh, you mean space.

it isn't all space.

There is stuff we can't see,

even with the most powerful telescope.

But we know it is there.

Because of gravitational effect.

Picture the universe as a mountain range.

Only the highest peaks get snow.

These snowy peaks are stars and the

galaxies we can see through our telescope.

But these are just

the tiniest part of the universe.

Maybe one percent.

The rest of the mountain is Dark Matter.

99 percent of the universe, Dark Matter.

But no one pays attention to it,

because they can't see it.

I can see it with mathematics.

I can use mathematics

to see the whole dark mountain.

Academics make $50,000 a year, tops.

Private industry pays twice that.

Plus you get royalties, too.

Go get the ball. Put it back quick.

- Who won?

What industry?

Pharmaceuticals.

Im going to find a cure for AI DS.

Why are you always winning?

- What about you?

Ill definitely be a millionaire.

Im going to solve the Dark Matter

Problem, win the Nobel Prize,

and marry a blond,

blue-eyed American girl.

Dark Matter again.

You have a one track mind.

Now what can I do for you?

I want a cup of tea.

Any particular kind?

Which one is the best?

Gosh, I don't know.

Im more of a coffee drinker myself, but

We have lots to choose from.

Okay, I would like a togo.

Togo?

- Togo. There?

Oh! To go.

- To go, to go.

Sure, no problem.

Here.

- Thank you.

You're welcome.

Oh, sorry.

- its okay.

Sorry, sorry.

Are you a student here?

Me?

- Yes.

No. Not anymore.

Are you?

Yes. Cosmology.

Oh, yeah?

- Yes.

Wow. Hey, maybe you could

give me a free makeover.

I think so.

Well, it goes something like this.

A theorist and an experimentalist

were on death row.

He's going to tell a joke.

- Where they belong.

Right.

- Most of them.

And the guard asked them

for their last wish.

So the theorist says,

I'd like to give a seminar,

to present my latest theoretical

breakthrough. - Before they die.

And then the guard asks

the experimentalist, who says,

Id like to be executed

before the seminar.

He got it.

All right, everybody,

we have to all thank Joanna

for how well she's taken care of

all of our Chinese students.

And Ive heard about the high cultural

experiences of the Pioneer Village,

the Cineplex... High culture.

Oh, everyone had fun, didn't you?

- Oh, a great time.

I think it's important for everyone

to get out of that lab we gave you.

Ah ha. Yeah, yes.

Which we are very grateful

to you and Hal for.

And I think we are incubating some

truly remarkable scientists here.

Liu Xing?

- Yes?

We let you out sometimes, don't we?

- Yes.

And Professor Reiser is very inspire me.

He's a diplomat, too.

To me. Inspiring to me.

- Inspiring to me.

And Dark Matter is also

still very inspiring to you.

What do you know about Dark Matter?

I thought science didn't interest you.

Well, no. I mean, I am

more interested in the cultural side,

but Liu Xing explained it to me

very eloquently the other day.

And it made sense.

Maybe I should hire him

to do my fundraising.

Speaking of Dark Matter, look at that.

But it is very interesting, Dark Matter.

- Yes.

Motions of stars and the galaxies,

all determined by Dark Matter around it.

Like a dark...

Like a dark hollow.

Hollow?

- Hollow.

Halo, like an angel.

Hon, maybe we should get

some after-dinner drinks for everybody.

Liu Xing?

They're going to go smoke. You smoke?

- I don't.

She's probably gonna kill me for this.

Ill survive.

Professor Reiser,

are you afraid of your wife?

Uh, no.

Just about the cigar smell.

Drinking a problem?

- No.

Who's that?

Oh. That's my advisor, Dr. Gazda.

Your advisor?

- Yeah, I was about your age then.

After I graduated I published a critique

of his Black Hole Accretion Flows Theory.

I read this paper. Very good.

You did?

- Yeah.

Well, he didn't seem to think so.

But that's how it goes.

in China, this would never happen.

- What?

Student never challenge the teacher.

Have too much respect.

It's a big problem,

Because no challenge, no progress.

Well, you feel free

to challenge me all you want.

Just remember, Im always right.

- I think so.

Oh, drink that slowly.

Itll go straight to your head.

Drink it slow.

- Slow.

I love that song.

You know this?

- Yes. It's my favorite song.

I love that song.

- Your favorite?

I don't know what it means.

Something about the

Blue sky and white cloud...

No problem.

- Flowed by...

Beneath the white cloud

A sheep as white as snow.

Under the white...

Under the white sheep...

- No, not under the white sheep.

Cosmic strings continues to be

the most elegant explanation

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