Dr. Mae Strange
Once observed a single boson without measurably disturbing it. Currently disturbing it.
Dr. Mae Strange holds an MS in Boson Etiquette from the Institute for Advanced Pretending. Prior to joining newtrawn INC, she spent eight years as the only known consultant capable of leaving a Higgs field undisturbed during a meeting.
Dr. Strange is the recognized authority on the 'Disturbed Particle Methodology', in which she deliberately disturbs particles she had previously promised not to disturb, then writes deliverables describing the disturbance. The methodology has been deployed at six Fortune 500 companies and one universe.
Her bylines have appeared in Spin Magazine, Wave Function Weekly, and the now-defunct Quark Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a book about the second time she observed the same boson.
"The boson was fine until I noticed it. I take full responsibility."
— Dr. Mae Strange
Background
Dr. Strange began her career at the Institute for Advanced Pretending, where she was the first researcher to formally prove that you cannot watch a field without changing it, and the second researcher to do so anyway. Her early work on undisturbed observation earned her a reputation as the calmest person in any room containing a Higgs boson — a reputation she promptly disturbed.
As VP of Particle Affairs she manages newtrawn INC’s relationships with particles both internal and external, a portfolio she describes as ‘diplomacy at the scale of things that don’t know they’re in a meeting’.
Areas of expertise
- The Disturbed Particle Methodology™ (disturbing, then documenting)
- Measurement-induced wavefunction collapse, on demand and on schedule
- Boson etiquette, protocol, and seating arrangements
- Decoherence management for skittish stakeholders
- Entanglement audits and post-engagement re-isolation
Notable decay events
Dr. Strange has never personally decayed, which she regards as her single greatest competitive advantage over the rest of the leadership team. She has, however, presided over the decay of several deliverables, each of which she observed closely — thereby, by her own admission, accelerating it.
Speaking & publications
Her bylines have appeared in Spin Magazine, Wave Function Weekly, and the now-defunct Quark Quarterly Review. She is sole author of the newtrawn whitepaper on quarterly decay patterns in charm-heavy consultancies and a co-author on the firm’s charm quark deployment framework. She is currently writing a book about the second time she observed the same boson.