Patrick Bryant, PhD

"In the not too distant future, close to 100% of the energy used by humanity will be carried by electricity, generated from renewable sources (mostly solar and wind with significant contributions from hydro and geothermal power). Combustion will have the same old time-y steampunk vibe as trains and horses, relegated to niche uses for hobbyists. Burning valuable molecules will be understood as comically expensive, inefficient and dangerous."

"Air is an elastic medium; if you disturb it by clapping or plucking the string of an instrument, pressure waves propagate out from the disturbance. When those pressure waves reach your ear, the pressure at your eardrum fluctuates as a function of time."

"You learn about superpositions, particles behaving like waves and vice versa, entanglement, quantum tunneling and teleportation. It’s not surprising that many physicists occasionally get lost in the sauce."