the hydrosphere

Tom has been practicing for a speech. I've heard it so many times over that I could almost give it myself. It's a nonsense script that I can run through in my head, but so many of these hydrogeological terms are completely alien to me.

"strontium isotopes do not undergo significant mass fractionation ..." 

It is a whole other language to me, the words of which I still do not entirely believe exist.

Perhaps we work so well together because we belong to such different worlds, our minds work in such different ways and we see the world from such distinctly different (but aligned) perspectives. We wear different lenses but we believe in the same simple truths. Our different paths lead us to the same conclusions - or at least to interesting debate, which is half the fun in itself, is it not?