On a warm day in the late Summer, two physicists sat on the R1 veranda and engaged in a conversation about rollercoasters. We present an excerpt below.

(hearty laughter)

That’s really cool except I imagine the lines for that are long, because they can’t run… two

Two of them! Yeeah, that’s true, the lines are a little bit longer I think, but they go really fast.
Unfortunately I guess that means you know the ride…

ride is fast

ride is fast, yeeah.
But it’s definitely worth doing once or twice.
There’s … There’s Runaway Mountain, which I assume is… everywhere; like that’s the rollercoaster in the dark.

OK.

That’s a lot of fun

Um … there’s….. ahh, there’s Flashback, which is the first one I ever went on that… that goes upside down

OK.

The Shockwave is a bigger one that goes upside down.
Oh and the… the Titan! That is… so that’s supposedly the world’s biggest rollercoaster, yup.
And I assume that; I assume it’s the same one that you went on, like just a diferent edition of it

Yeah.

the same, the same struct… That was spec-tac-u-lar. There’s, There’s one part in it, I’ve ridden in it a few times.There’s one part where you go like, under this thing. On like, So it, it takes you like around on the side a couple times…?

OK. yeah, I don’t, I don’t remember enough details but I…

Oh OK. And it sort of goes and plunges down, and … and there’s like a, you go under an awn… like a little awning. And … you know, I’ve got my hands up, I always kinda shah-ha-hake bah-hack (laughter while speaking) down, cause I’m like, that really looks like I’m about to hit tha-ha-ha-ha-hah! (laughter)

Well they’ve designed it, You know. They’ve designed it to do this…

There’s like, I mean… I don’t think, I don’t think Dikembe Mutombo could touch that thing if he tri-ha-ha-ha-hied

Yeah.

(hearty laughter)

John Bradley of course would lose his hands

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA (very enthusiastic laughter), ri-ha-ha-ha-hight

Yeah.

Like in the West Wing?

Yes.

When the president always ducks every time he gets into a helicopter?

Yup.

He’s like: You don’t think those blades could chop off your head? I don’t think those blades could chop off Dikembe Mutombo’s head!

heheheheheheh

Yeah.

…some moments of silence…

Well thanks for coming out

OK.