10; I am a scientist [I can live on science alone]

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[The Doctor hasn't been on the Plane in a while. Funny, though, whatever he's been up to has made him a bit happier than he was the last time he was here]

[And now, the Doctor is sitting with a chemistry set and a mottled-together computer, working on a few experiments]

[Please, feel free to interrupt him]

Comments

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[omfg fanboy tiem nao]

Arthur Eddington! It's you, of course! I just didn't recognize you with the---

I'm a big fan of your work! Relativity---brilliant stuff. Absolutely brilliant. Not perfectly accurate, but close enough. It's...well, it's actually fairly far out there on the wrong scale. But it's a good guess!

[scienceandgod.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry, what?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[ D= ]

Maybe not yet?

[scienceandgod.livejournal.com]

No, not quite.

I've only just recently met Einstein, if that helps. Happened a few months ago.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Oh!

Well, then!

Just...pretend I didn't say anything just yet.

[glee]

Still! Eddington!

[scienceandgod.livejournal.com]

[smiles, though it's a little embarrassed]

Just Arthur is fine.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[in the same manner one might if the Queen said "Call me Elizabeth"]

Arthur!

Just met Einstein, eh? And your work? What're you working on?

[scienceandgod.livejournal.com]

I've been looking over the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram to try to find some correlation between the mass and luminosity of a star.

All the numbers, at least regarding the main sequence stars, point to there being something. I've gotten on fairly well with the equation, I think, but I'm still hitting walls.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[oh, he hops from foot to foot, like an author telling him he's working on his favorite novel]

Really? Oh, that sounds brilliant. Still working on the power source of stars, then? Bit too early for thermonuclear energy, but I'm sure you'll figure something out.

[scienceandgod.livejournal.com]

[nods]

The Doctor- well, the other Doctor, has offered to teach me. But I'd still like to work out the theories on my own.