Part of this (Scientific) World

I was browsing the last few entries from Cosmic Variance, a scientific blog that I follow occasionally (primarily when I'm told to read it), and came upon this: arXiv Find: Atom interferometry tests of local Lorentz invariance. While the authors of this arXive release (in particular, the fourth author, Steve Chu) are the subject of greatest interest to CV's bloggers, my reaction was slightly different. I've met at least four of the five authors (I'm not sure if I've met Sven) and seeing their names on a brief blog browse tickled my little-mermaid-like desire to be "part of this (scientific) world."