1:42:01
I was ultimately looking
for some way...
1:42:04
ofbringing those
two forces together.
1:42:11
Well, my name is Candace Pert...
1:42:13
and I'm a professor at Georgetown
in the medical school.
1:42:20
Here we are actually filming
great thinkers.
1:42:23
Everyone in this room
is a great thinker...
1:42:25
now that we got 'em thinking.
1:42:28
That's always a trick,
isn't it?
1:42:33
I should make it clear that
I'm a graduate student in physics.
1:42:36
I'm not a full-fledged
theoretical physicist yet.
1:42:40
Uh, but if fortune
smiles on me...
1:42:43
and I continue to work like a dog on
my problem sets and exams and whatnot...
1:42:48
eventually what I hope
to do with this is--
1:42:50
is to apply fundamental
quantum theory...
1:42:54
to quantum information
processing.
1:42:59
So I decided, well, if I gave up
being department chairman...
1:43:03
and if I gave up all my
professional committees...
1:43:05
and I gave up all my government committees,
I would have a block of time...
1:43:10
that I could put to work.
1:43:12
Of course I gave up
all my power positions...
1:43:15
but you have
to sacrifice something.
1:43:17
I had to keep my day job
because my family needed to be fed.
1:43:28
I presume that you're asking me
how a scientist can sound this wacko...
1:43:31
because I must be sounding
wacko.
1:43:36
It's really an interesting question.
If you study science long enough...
1:43:41
and seriously enough
and dig deeply enough...
1:43:44
if you don't come out feeling
wacko about it...
1:43:47
you haven't understood a thing.