In other words, it's the perfect experiment. I mean, you blow something up and then catch every particle and explain where everything went. It sounds like an impossible thing!

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.

Good catch -- I mean, a good throw.

Everybody on Medicare needs to sit down and say, 'What does this mean to me?' You can't just blow it off.

They wanted to fire one X-ray photon at a hydrogen molecule, knock both electrons back, and the two nuclei would explode apart. Then, they wanted to catch all four particles and figure out the orientation of the molecule in space: how far apart were the nuclei, where did the electrons go for that orientation and what were their distances.

We all believed it was a big joke. They went out on a limb and said it was real effect and it might come from the changes in that intricate dance that electrons do around every molecule. This really annoyed me.