This article is the fourth in a series of essays written by Black physicists and co-published with Physics Today as part of #BlackInPhysics week 2022, an event dedicated to celebrating Black physicists and their contributions to the scientific community, and to revealing a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like. This year’s theme is “joy in the diverse Black community”.
Pursuing joy in an alien world
26 Oct 2022
Larissa Palethorpe is a PhD student in astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, UK
© Larissa Palethorpe 2022