LASER: Likelihood Abatement by Synchronicity Exceeding Reality
9 May: My mom dies.
10 May: I help my sister start going through my mom’s apartment. Among the few items of interest I manage to find amidst thirty-five years’ worth of accumulated clutter is the December, 1966 issue of National Geographic, whose article, “The Laser’s Bright Magic,” about the invention of the laser, made an enormous impression on me when I was young. I also find the presentation I gave in fifth grade based on that article.
11 May: Theodore Maiman, inventor of the laser and central figure in the aforementioned National Geographic article, dies.
