She talks, you listen

After three more dances, Anna spends thirty seconds staring at the bar.

"Uh, I can buy you more vodka."

"Yes, no. Done dancing so done drinking. We go nice restaurant."

"It's pretty late."

"Restaurant is always open."

The nice restaurant turns out to be McDonalds.

You order a diet cola but Anna stops you. "No. You drink iced tea if want to lose weight. Diet cola is poison."

She got herself a quarter pounder and ordered you a chicken breast sandwich, then threw away the bread. "You not need the carbs. You hardly move when you dance."

You couldn't argue with her. In fact, you were surprised anyone could argue with her.

"Only one reason computer programmer want to know about digital physics," she says when you bring the meals to the table she selected. "You think simulation, right?"

"Yeah. I guess it's not that original."

She shrugs, which sends nice movements through her body. "Not completely original. Original enough dissertation advisor thinks it stupid. Asshole."

"Maybe you should pick another advisor."

"Only one good enough. So, I try to explain in language someone with no mathematics can understand."

"I'm not exactly uneducated."

She waves a hand. "College calculus. Math for game programming. Is nothing. Now you listen, I talk."

You nod, ask if you can record, then listen.

She talks for two hours... going into the reasons for believing that the universe is actually built of math. Not that math can describe the universe but that that the fundamental building blocks of the universe are math itself.

You feel like your head is going to explode from the infodump. Especially as she told you that she was giving you the no-mathematics version. Apparently she has a high regard for the mathematical abilities of the no-math set.

"Just because math doesn't mean easy to manipulate," she concludes. "Can't just multiply both sides by ten or whatever."

That, you know, is where hacking comes in. Still, she's given you enough information for multiple streams. Once you get started, you'll have to bring her in as a guest. You're pretty sure any audience you get will be male nerds and any male worth being called a nerd will fall for the hot physics genius.

"Too late to go home now," she announces abruptly. "I go home with you."