A law of physics

On the way to book club, I stopped into a pub for dinner. Sitting at the table next to me was a petite black woman. I asked her if she taught at Queen's or was a student? (the pub was a stone's throw from campus) She said she's a physicist doing research at Queen's. I thought "uh oh, short conversation." She's in some realm of physics that my brain can't penetrate. But then I learned she was from Haiti, so we were cooking with gas at that point. We had a long chat about the presidential election there and why she thought Chavannes Jean Baptiste wasn't doing well. I worked with him during my week in Haiti and I understood him to be a national hero. When you have a Haitian cab driver in Florida and you mention Chavannes, the driver's face just lights up. The physicist said Chavannes hasn't extended his work broadly enough through the country to be sufficiently well known. She's pulling for a successful businessman who is a major exporter of plantains. The problem in Haiti is there are 54 candidates (down from 72), so voters have some work to do to pick the right candidate.

The law of physics in the headline is the one I'm making up on the spot, which says the proportion of diverse and interesting people in a pub is highly correlated to the number of universities in a town. However I think physical laws entail relationships between matter, not statistics, so I'm glad we had something other than physics to discuss.
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