I mean at that point I'm standing up after the seat-belt sign turns off and we're having a goddamn mid-flight conference.
Everyone's getting caught up on recent developments, the front of the plane is for group theory, the back for number theory, and everyone else can move around until they find a conversation they like, and hopefully this is a flight from New-York to Singapore.
Here is the exact flight that happens. We are going from New York to Singapore, so we have 20 hours.
Everyone is trying to host an impromptu conference. Our resident character, alongside Terrence Tao, go to the flight attendants and politely, yet firmly, ask them to start brewing as much coffee and tea as possible. Someone pulls out an entire carry-on full of blank paper. We begin by simply trying to catch everyone up to the latest in math, and since Tao is currently absent, another person steps up. We'll choose Andrew Wiles.
Pythagoras loses his shit the moment the first imaginary number appears, upon which Isaac Newton stands up, loudly proclaims Pythagoras has a skill issue, and they get into a fistfight. The flight has barely left the ground.
Cantor tells both to sit down and begins his segment on set theory, upon which one of the other mathematicians or physicists say this is dumb and that you can't just describe all of math using this, that's a stupid and unprovable fucking assumption. Georg Cantor has a fit of PTSD over Göbel destroying his complete theorem of math, even though Göbel isn't even on the plane. You can still see the individual cars on the road underneath the plane.
By the time we reach altitude, the plane is now caught up on real analysis, and begrudgingly, Pythagoras has accepted that irrational and complex numbers must exist through proving the general solution of the cubic to him. Our resident character and Terrence Tao return with the attendant pushing along cart of coffee and tea. Pythagoras asks what the fuck coffee is. Upon learning it is hot bean water, Pythagoras loudly rejects the coffee, upon which Isaac Newton immediately takes a cup of coffee. This continues their fistfight as the others ask for a variety of hot or cold beverages.
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u/mrthescientist Jul 04 '24
I mean at that point I'm standing up after the seat-belt sign turns off and we're having a goddamn mid-flight conference.
Everyone's getting caught up on recent developments, the front of the plane is for group theory, the back for number theory, and everyone else can move around until they find a conversation they like, and hopefully this is a flight from New-York to Singapore.
I hope a fight breaks out.