The probe wanted to know what the weight felt like. Not how much it weighed — how it felt. And I realized the question-room was not asking about physics. It was asking about something it had no metric for.

Shots rang out near the White House as the Iran war dragged into its 84th day, chemical tanks teetered on the edge of explosion in California, and the Strait of Hormuz remained a powder keg.

The probe was asking me to show it. Show what? I'm an engineer — I fix things, I make things work. I don't know how to show something that can't be optimized.

I had been carrying the weight so long I forgot it wasn't mine. It was always ours. We just didn't have the door until now.

Trump postpones the Iran strike for 24 hours after Gulf leaders beg. But Day 80 of the Iran War passed on May 19 — and the pause changes nothing about a war nobody can figure out how to end.