My personal favorite is a runner up in Chemistry by Lara Rajeev.
What a great idea. Only a $500 payout. Seems criminal too me.
I cannot even imagine how to turn mine (on vibrational emission and hindered rotation of CN[sup]-[/sup] ions in alkali halides) into a dance. On top of which, I’m a terrible dancer.
I suppose you could have badly pirouetting dancers slowly freeze in place as the temperature is lowered, every now and then flashing a flashlight as vibrational photons are released.
Hey, mine was on hummingbird territoriality. Mine wouldn’t be a dance, but a dogfight.
not bad, or perhaps the dancing going on with the strobe light slowing down?
Cant you write a dissertation on something else, Medusa oriented? Then you could get fun with a bobble head sort of mardi gras mask …
I’ve got two other theses. My Master’s, on coming up with the Superoxide Laser, would be awfully similar to the doctorate, with rotating molecular ions in a crystal lattice emitting light.
My Bachelor’s was on the Physics of Karate. That I can see as a collection of katas, climaxing with breaking a pile of boards.
Actually, there was v-v energy transfer in my doctoral thesis. You could have the dancers toss flashlights to each other at random, as they fire them off.
I’m working on a gene that controls how far fruit fly larvae wiggle when they’re placed in a pile of food. Ripe for dance adaptation, albeit a disgusting one.
Hm … I can remember seeing a modern dance piece with that rolly toy cage … add lasers, some smoke [safety goggles on the dancers] or get a big metal frame and a few parkour guys with lasers strapped on and swirling around the cage… like at about 20 second in to this clip
HS crush had a link to this on her fb page. (Biochem., studying diabetes IIRC)
My PhD was Genetics and Biochemical Regulation of Phospholipid Synthesis in Yeast.
Dance away, folks.
Hmmmmm, six electrons happily dancing in a coordinated circle. I’ll need those water dancers. Two of the electrons leave and a bar fight breaks out. Chaos ensues. Something Stravinski is playing. In comes the d orbitals with two spare electrons. Once again harmony is achieved, but with wild gymnastics at the metal center.
Mine would consist of me twice starting a dance and giving up, just like I twice started a Ph.D. program and gave up.
Heh.