Collection of Science Jokes P2

[strangerep]

Did Some scientists already have the hair so decided it had to be quantum mechanics as a career?

Lev Landau

Landau doesn't look all that bad. Compare him to his co-author Evgeny Lifschitz who seems
almost completely bald. I've wondered whether that was accelerated by working under Landau.
You know what they say about the classic textbooks of Landau & Lifschitz: "Not a word by Landau, not a thought by Lifschitz.

 

[Orodruin]

 

[pinball1970]

Two theoretical physicists are lost at the top of a mountain.

Theoretical physicist No 1 pulls out a map and peruses it for a while. Then he turns to theoretical physicist No 2 and says: "Hey, I've figured it out. I know where we are."
"Where are we then?"
"Do you see that mountain over there?"
"Yes."
"Well… THAT'S where we are."

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Wrichik Basu]

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The two emails are 4 minutes apart. The first email went viral very fast, it seems.

 

[jbriggs444]

The two emails are 4 minutes apart. The first email went viral very fast, it seems.

That's a nasty R number or an incredibly short incubation period.

 

[Bandersnatch]

The two emails are 4 minutes apart. The first email went viral very fast, it seems.

The times shown don't tell you anything about the time elapsed between emails. Just how long it took to take a screenshot.

 

[jack action]

I have a scary joke about math but I'm $2^2$ to say it.

 

[berkeman]

Perfect for Halloween!

 

[dextercioby]

 

[collinsmark]

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Yeah, I love that one. I posted it one facebook awhile ago, but I only got ~3 likes. And I suspect those were from people who didn't get it and thought it was a cry for help.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Tom.G]

Cynic!

 

[DennisN]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Wrichik Basu]

 

[Ibix]

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I am unable to get this joke because I do not understand recursion and my mental call stack is only three entries deep.

 

[DaveC426913]

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Seriously though, that's not recursion, is it? Shouldn't it be this*?

* loop counter and exit condition left out for clarity

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Seriously though, that's not recursion, is it? Shouldn't it be this*?

You are showing the code of the recursive function. My picture shows the function call stack in memory.

 

[mfb]

It's tail recursive, you can simplify it and get rid of the call stack.

Doing this might need some understanding of recursion, however, so let's start with the original diagram. Oh wait.

 

[davenn]

 

[DennisN]

A fun article on Uncyclopedia: Quantum Economics.

E.g. the Schrödinger section was hilarious.

A thought experiment was proposed by Erwin Schrödinger: consider a cubicle in which there is no method for an employer to observe the employee contained therein (a so called black box cubicle). An employee is then placed in such a cubicle with access to a corporation's assets. While the actions of the employee are unmonitored, Schrödinger proposed that the employee existed both in a state of having embezzled and in a state of honest work. Only by way of a painful audit can the wavefunction of the employee's innocence collapse to a single classical economic state (a process called a cut collapse).

I have a feeling @Demystifier might enjoy this one.

 

[Jarvis323]

Grammarly didn't like the word curse, so it suggested some alternatives.

Some of my favorites:

The whammy of dimensionality ...
The hex of dimensionality ...
The scourge of dimensionality ...
The nemesis of dimensionality ...
The condemnation of dimensionality ...

 

[Ibix]

I rather like the voodoo of dimensionality. You stick a pin in the fourth dimension and get a stabbing pain in the middle of next week.

 

[DennisN]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Orodruin]

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Polar coordinates…

 

[DrGreg]

The continent where South Antarctica and Central Antarctica are the same place.

 

[gmax137]

The continent where South Antarctica and Central Antarctica are the same place.

Presumably, "The continent with 24 time zones." I never really thought about that before.

Not so fast! TIL, It's simpler, and more complicated than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Antarctica

 

[fresh_42]

Presumably, "The continent with 24 time zones." I never really thought about that before.

Not so fast! TIL, It's simpler, and more complicated than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Antarctica

Psst, don't say it out loud, but you can travel backward in time over there.

 

[Ibix]

I think I've told this story before, but I once went to a lecture about boomerang physics by a guy whose official research involved travel to polar regions. He claimed to have the record for the longest ever boomerang flight at 24 hours and seventeen seconds, a trick he'd pulled by throwing the boomerang around the pole while stepping from one side of the date line to the other. He said the people at the Guiness Book of Records had stopped returning his calls...

 

[Baluncore]

The continent where South Antarctica and Central Antarctica are the same place.

Note that the map is upside down.

 

[Swamp Thing]

Grammarly didn't like the word curse, so it suggested some alternatives.

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Some of my favorites:

The whammy of dimensionality ...
The hex of dimensionality ...
The scourge of dimensionality ...
The nemesis of dimensionality ...
The condemnation of dimensionality ...

How about "the dirty word of dimensionality", courtesy Thesaurus.com?

 

[fresh_42]

And another one who didn't pay attention in his physics class ...