A Little Physics to Start the Week

Or:  The Physicist on Wall Street!

The answer to the headline "Why do Physicists gravitate toward  jobs in Finance?" can be summed up thusly:

1. Smart People (especially at Math).
2. Money.
3. Combine liberally.

 And don't forget The Fritz Spence Project!

And a little knowledge today's politicians should learn:

“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”
― Richard P. Feynman