My name is Alex. I was twenty-five years old and working on my doctorate in aerospace technology. While on campus, I met an exceptional young woman, Janice, who was also working on her doctorate. But she couldn’t tell me much about what she and her colleagues were intensely researching. All that I could gather was that it had to do with matters esoteric and mysterious. Janice’s charmingly good looks hid well her dizzying intellect. I felt that I was out of her league, and yet she took a keen interest in me, my work, and my life.