Collection of Science Jokes P2

[fresh_42]

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So you have to be bipolar, however depressive at least, to study thermodynamics and statistical mechanics successfully?

 

[Ibix]

Steve Julian, who lectured me in thermodynamics, did his undergraduate degree at Toronto. Apparently the physics society was pretty active (the campus was in the middle of nowhere, he said) and ran monthly socials styled as "Einstein's Birthday Party", or Newton's, or other famous physicists. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any famous physicists with birthdays in September, so they didn't have a name for their first party of the academic year. But Boltzmann killed himself in September - so the "welcome to the PhysSoc" event was the Boltzmann Suicide Party.

Or so he told us. Dr Julian did a rather fine line in anecdotes to liven up a tough subject...

 

[Arjan82]

So you have to be bipolar, however depressive at least, to study thermodynamics and statistical mechanics successfully?

Hey, not my words! (Excerpt comes from Goodstein's "States of Matter")

 

[fresh_42]

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any famous physicists with birthdays in September, so they didn't have a name for their first party of the academic year. But Boltzmann killed himself in September - so the "welcome to the PhysSoc" event was the Boltzmann Suicide Party.

Well, bipolar, blind, and over 60. I can at least understand him [Boltzmann] a bit. Ehrenfest was a little younger, and only depression is reported. However, he doubted that he could proceed to do physics, and suffered from his son's handicap (trisomy 21). It was different back then. And both had a world war coming up!

 

[berkeman]

Aaand the Jokes thread takes a wrong turn...

Let me check Google Maps to get back on course...

 

[fresh_42]

Aaand the Jokes thread takes a wrong turn...

Let me check Google Maps to get back on course...

No worries. Just background information for general knowledge.

 

[mfb]

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any famous physicists with birthdays in September

Carl David Anderson - discovered the positron and the muon.
Arthur Compton - Compton effect
John Dalton - atoms
Michael Faraday - electromagnetism
Enrico Fermi - nuclear physics and much more

That's just a small selection from A-F.

 

[Ibix]

That's just a small selection from A-F.

Then it's most likely that the Toronto physics society committee had a morbid sense of humour...

 

[Baluncore]

Aaand the Jokes thread takes a wrong turn...

The topic of today's tutorial will be the calculus of statistical mechanics.
How does that make you feel?

 

[jack action]

 

[Physics Slayer]

 

[thegoldbering]

A little Physics humor for this Valentine's day

I personally calculate momentum with inertia tensor! xD

 

[Baluncore]

Grim Air.


Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station.
https://research.csiro.au/acc/capabilities/cape-grim-baseline-air-pollution-station/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Grim/Kennaook

 

[Hamiltonian]

 

[Demystifier]

Science fiction made real. Traversable warmhole via classical tunneling:

 

[fresh_42]

I store the sugar I need for everyday purposes (coffee, cooking, etc.) in a peanut butter jar. It is made of plastic. Last time, before I refilled it, I decided to put it into the dishwasher, 50° C. Afterwards, it wasn't 8 cm high anymore, only 6 cm.

Question: How fast will I have to throw it, such that it is 8 cm high again?

 

[Ibix]

Question: How fast will I have to throw it, such that it is 8 cm high again?

Measured length is proportional to $\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}$, so $i\sqrt{7}c/3$. Good luck!

 

[DrClaude]

https://xkcd.com/2586/

Title text: If you ever see someone using a capital xi in an equation, just observe them quietly to learn as much as you can before they return to their home planet.

I've just had a close encounter of the third kind:

 

[mfb]

I store the sugar I need for everyday purposes (coffee, cooking, etc.) in a peanut butter jar. It is made of plastic. Last time, before I refilled it, I decided to put it into the dishwasher, 50° C. Afterwards, it wasn't 8 cm high anymore, only 6 cm.

Question: How fast will I have to throw it, such that it is 8 cm high again?

It's length contraction, not length expansion. You can accelerate the sugar, however. Be aware that you can't contain it in that state.

 

[fresh_42]

It's length contraction, not length expansion. You can accelerate the sugar, however. Be aware that you can't contain it in that state.

Yes, maybe I should have asked: Given its diameter is 7 cm, 6cm its height, how much sugar will I have to put into it such that spaghettification makes it 2 cm higher?

 

[jbriggs444]

Yes, maybe I should have asked: Given its diameter is 7 cm, 6cm its height, how much sugar will I have to put into it such that spaghettification makes it 2 cm higher?

So the alchemical trick for converting peanut butter into spaghetti is sugar?

 

[kuruman]

So the alchemical trick for converting peanut butter into spaghetti is sugar?

The conversion of peanut butter to spaghetti is not an alchemical trick. Faithful Pastafarians know that It's the first miracle performed by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, praised be his name. May he watch over us and shield us forever and ever, R'amen.

By Niklas Jansson - Android Arts, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48906232

 

[fresh_42]

The conversion of peanut butter to spaghetti is not an alchemical trick. Faithful Pastafarians know that It's the first miracle performed by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, praised be his name. May he watch over us and shield us forever and ever, R'amen.

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By Niklas Jansson - Android Arts, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48906232

No religion, please. This also includes Icelandic trolls and fairies.

 

[phinds]

 

[kuruman]

"grain pulvérisé et champignon de fermentation calorifié sur une source de chaleur à particules chargées"

would be $~\dots$

Spoiler

French toast. (According to Googletranslate)

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Borg]

You weren't supposed to see that.

 

[phinds]

You weren't supposed to see that.

Ah, but the Webb sees all !

 

[pinball1970]

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What is it? I googled, V'ger, Deep thought and the probe from the voyage home.
If it's Star Wars I won't know it besides the death Star, i think that was a sphere.

 

[fresh_42]

What is it?

A Borg cube.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

What is it? I googled, V'ger, Deep thought and the probe from the voyage home.
If it's Star Wars I won't know it besides the death Star, i think that was a sphere.

Seems to be the Borg cube:



It's a kilometre-wide spaceship. It flies, shoots, has a lot of robots in it.

(I, too, googled this)

 

[gmax137]

Resistance is futile...

 

[Bystander]

A Borg cube.

Oh.