What research actually looks like day to day

58:51Um, and so part of it is like continuing to stay, you know, abreast on that component part. But, it seems like a lot of the the current work is around building, running, and testing the simulation process. >> Yeah, I'd say that's the core of what we want to do. We want to take the predictions of dark matter theories and simulate them. >> Yeah. >> There's a lot of work in actually going from the dark matter theory to understanding how the clumps are going to look. >> Right. >> Uh, and so there's a lot of kind of stuff around the simulations, a lot of physics that you have to understand in order to know what the theories are predicting actually for the the properties of these clouds. >> And you know, the other thing about

59:31research is that it's very rarely a straight line from idea to paper or conclusion, right? Sometimes you go on these you know, you you end up somewhere completely different from where you anticipated or if or from where you planned you would be. Uh there's this quote, it's a Dwight D. Eisenhower quote that says plans are useless, but planning is essential. >> Yes. Yes. >> So the idea is that you know, if you've thought through a problem really well and you and you've mapped the road to a solution, the act of doing that is more more relevant than whatever you thought the the conclusion or the end goal would be. And so there's a lot of times in research where

1:00:11you know, you you start with some idea and it leads to some completely different investigation. Uh and that's what makes it exciting for me uh at least. >> 100% if if you're still listening here and that ethos resonates with you, I encourage you to watch our Carnegie interviews because you know, Mukaihi said exactly the same thing. I mean, he had the story about his um he was studying black holes for his thesis, but he was part of a project that made a breakthrough discovery and it was almost by accident. You know, it was not necessarily what their initial assumption was and one of his his things he always tells the lead researchers at the Carnegie Observatories is we need to

1:00:52leave space to explore, to be creative, uh to do things that we might not that might not be exactly what we think it'll be because that's where uh discovery happens. Um and so I'm going to leave you here with one last question. And because we might have to come and have you come back for a part two because I I could talk to you all day about this. Um as you look now at you know, where your