And for those curious as to what I am doing, I just had accepted another technical paper, this one on polymer dynamics. There is a received standard model of how polymers, long stringy molecules, move if you take a block of polymer (think ‘plastic’), melt it, and measure polymer motions in the melt. The model unambiguous predicts that the average distance traveled climbs as time raised to some power, typical powers being 1/2 or 1/4. The prediction is completely wrong. One infers that the standard model, the reptation-tube model, is also wrong. Polymers do not move as t to some power, no matter which power you assume. The paper is somewhat more than 110 journal pages long, though much of it is graphs of computer simulation outputs.

I know have a stack of novels on which I am working, and will soon start on publishing another technical paper, though I am not sure which one.