school my editor smasher earned the attention of a comic i've been a comic business has called edward teller he's the father of the hydrogen bomb he took me under his wing and he arranged for me to get a scholarship to harvard and that set me off chasing after einstein's theory of everything. you talk about how politics is important in your new book physics of the future there's. actually there's there's a whole bunch of things in here i'd love to talk to you. but but just in general and i know you've i've i've heard you tell the story before about explaining physics to politicians in the context of religion. can you can share that story with us and why in your mind politics as a theoretical physicist politics is. well in one thousand nine hundred three we were going to build the largest particle accelerator the largest ad mismeasure of all time much bigger than the large hadron collider ingenious with alone because actually a piece were the big what was called the super collider it was to be built outside dallas texas costing a leavened billion dollars but then in the last day of hearings b