Physics of Weight Control

Scott Aaronson lists his favorite foods, and says that he expects to weigh 3000 pounds by the time he gets tenure.

Jenn Fallis explains his mistake: he’s a theorist. Experimental physics can provide a built-in exercise problem as you haul bits of apparatus from one place to another. Theory’s sitting-at-a-desk-staring-into-space program just can’t compete…