The Master of Disguise and the HOT mistress of Cold Fusion
This article, once again, is for the benefit of the physicists in the audience.
The movie I am talking about is The Saint. The TV series
where Simon Templar is played by Roger Moore is made into the motion picture
event of.... the hour. Actually, I shouldn't bitch too much about it, its
one of those you-can-watch-it-once-in-the-theater-and-laugh-about-it kind
of movies, and one of those you-can-watch-it-again-if-they-show-it-on-TV
movies.
Val Kilmer plays Simon Templar. The plot: some dumbass cold fusion thing,
there exists the ever-present "Formula" for cold fusion, and only one scientist
in the world has completed it - or at least can complete it - and it turns
out to be the character played by Elizabeth Shue (mmmmmm).
Of course, we can all laugh about the scene where she uses a Leibig Condenser
- the thing you use to distill water among other things - as something to
cause Cold Fusion. We can all laugh about the climactic scene when the cold
fusion device they built using her "Formula" works, and not just in any place,
it starts working right in the Red Square in Moscow! (It's getting Stranger
and Stranger In Moscow, to misquote Michael Jackson!) When the device starts
to work, for some reason as it fuses Hydrogen nuclei into Helium, the escaping
Helium gas LIGHTS A BULB?!?!?!?!!? HUH?????? And its white in colour... HUH????
Anyway - I know you noticed these things, dear physicists... but did you
notice this little fact:
The actual "Formula" that Shue's character possesses, consists of some
actual quantum mechanical equations (simple ones, like the expectation value
for some operator) - these equations have a lot of KETS.
And... to complete the picture, so to speak, guess where she hides these
KETS -
In her BRA.
I'm pretty sure P. A. M. Dirac invented bra and ket algebra just so that
it could culminate into this movie.