Collection of Science Jokes P2

In summary: Usually it's been commentated as being 'real'. Actually the joke dates back to the 30's and whether it's real or not cannot be said anymore.
  • #876
nrqed said:
Cayley's theorem, which says that any group is isomorphic to a certain subgroup of that group's group of isomorphisms.
Do you have a quote? I know Cayley as ##G \leq \operatorname{Sym}_{|G|}## in the finite case.
 
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  • #878
nrqed said:
Thanks, and yes, that's the proof, but I don't see that ##f_a## are isomorphisms, only bijections! E.g. ##f_a(1)=a \stackrel{i.g.}{\neq}1##. That was my problem: permutations are no homomorphisms. We have ##G \longrightarrow \operatorname{Sym}(G)## not ##\operatorname{Aut}(G)##. If we restricted ourselves to conjugations, we would get all central elements in the kernel, so that doesn't work. Where are the automorphisms?

All we have are automorphisms in the category ##\mathcal{Set}## but this is a very misleading wording in this context, and to say "its isomorphisms" is wrong - at least as far as I know.
 
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  • #879
The Time Stephen Met Jim Carrey
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  • #880
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  • #881
That explains global warming, too!

Anthropomorphic global warming. :wink:
 
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  • #882
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  • #884
fresh_42 said:
Don't forget the paper! We were supposed to save paper!
Actually, I think that we have reached a point of diminishing paper. I basically no longer get any paper invoices and I read the newspapers online. Looking at the students, more and more are buying the textbooks as e-books and many assignments go directly from their computer to mine with no wood-derived product in-between.
 
  • #885
Except in between their ears...?
No, I'm sure your students are better than that!
 
  • #886
DrClaude said:
Actually, I think that we have reached a point of diminishing paper.
All diagrams I can find on the internet are ##O(t)## since 1950. I haven't found a worldwide chart and the ones I've found ended in 2005 or so, which is why I don't post them. Yes, some paper traffic has gone electric, but the vast majority of papers are the n-th copy of a meeting protocol, the 10th-copy of a joke going around in emails, or the private copies of anything. Paper is still cheap and everybody is a Gutenberg. A few online invoices don't change the trend.
 
  • #887
fresh_42 said:
I haven't found a worldwide chart and the ones I've found ended in 2005
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270317/production-volume-of-paper-by-type/
Definition:
Graphic papers products are all around you and can be found in almost any home, office or business. These include a very wide variety of paper products for uses such as newspapers, inserts, supplements, A4 copy paper and printer paper, book paper, envelopes, forms, writing pads, high-quality magazines and brochures, company magazines, catalogues and annual reports.
 
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  • #891
DennisN said:
@Greg Bernhardt , when will PF/Latex support hieroglyphs?
Haven't you noticed? It already does:
DarMM said:
$$H(g,\kappa) = H_{\phi,\kappa} + H_{\psi,\kappa} + g\colon\bar{\psi}\phi\psi\colon - \delta m^2(g,\kappa) - E(g,\kappa)$$
I think it says: 'Ptolemy was here', but Ptah only knows.
 
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  • #892
DennisN said:
@Greg Bernhardt , when will PF/Latex support hieroglyphs?
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  • #895
That's funny.
He better be back before his supper gets cold, or if he's lucky maybe she will keep it warm in the oven.:wink:
 
  • #896
Bandersnatch said:
Haven't you noticed? It already does:

I think it says: 'Ptolemy was here', but Ptah only knows.
It's the Hamiltonian for the Yukawa theory, fairly standard QFT, you'd see it in intro books.
 
  • #897
Oh, humour. That elusive beast.
 
  • #898
Bandersnatch said:
Oh, humour. That elusive beast.
I know it's a joke Mr. Silly, just thought I'd explain what it actually was. :smile:
 
  • #900
Keith_McClary said:
I’m Going on a Random Walk
In case this is not in your Physics curriculum:
Once again, however, our focus is on simple diffusion or the nearest-neighbor random walk. For these processes, the possibility of a diffusing particle making arbitrarily large excursions before certain trapping takes place leads to an infinite mean lifetime. On the other hand, the recurrence of diffusion in one dimension means that the particle must eventually return to its starting point. This dichotomy between infinite lifetime and certain trapping leads to a variety of extremely surprising first-passage-related properties both for the semi-infinite interval and the infinite system.
Section 3.1 (and the referenced Chapters 1-2).
 
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  • #903
DrGreg said:
In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.

When the series was exported to Australia, that episode was banned.
Yes, if I should ever be bitten by a spider, I hope it happens north of the Alps!
 
  • #904
DrGreg said:
In the UK there is a TV programme for very young children called Peppa Pig. One episode is about spiders and reassures viewers that spiders are very small and can't hurt you.

When the series was exported to Australia, that episode was banned.

Ref: Peppa Pig 'spiders can't hurt you' episode pulled off air in Australia – again
hahaha, I was unaware of that ... what most people ( and obviously those who produced that TV prog) don't realize, is that the smaller spiders tend to be more venomous than the larger onesDave
 
  • #906
Some things are funny because they are true.
http://pearlsofrawnerdism.com/life-and-maths/
 
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