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What were the dyne-centimeter's last words?









Erg!









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Permalink Reply by Howard S. Dunn on February 3, 2010 at 3:49pm
Erg! One of my favorite Greek words. It means 'work' and is onomatopoeic - I think it is based on a common sound made when performing a laborious task.
Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on February 3, 2010 at 4:00pm
Onomatopoeia
Every time I seeya
My senses tell me, "Hubba,"
And I just can't disagree.

-- Todd Rundgren
Permalink Reply by Robert Fleming on July 17, 2010 at 1:00pm
Physicists do it with stimulated emissions.
Permalink Reply by Terry McCoy on July 23, 2010 at 5:50am
Heisenberg was here... maybe
Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on July 23, 2010 at 5:55am
Same notation on Schroedinger's Cat.
Permalink Reply by Terry McCoy on July 23, 2010 at 8:37am
Schroedinger's cat was dead here... maybe?
Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on July 23, 2010 at 8:48am
Visitor: How do Heisenberg Compensators work?
Geordi Laforge: Very well, thank you.
Permalink Reply by Matt Tanner on July 23, 2010 at 9:33am
Q: What were the electron's last words before slamming into an interference pattern?
A: "Just passing through. [head turn] Just passing through."

Addendum: Too bad nobody observed it though
Permalink Reply by Matt Tanner on July 23, 2010 at 9:41am
Found this after a google search for physics humor. Chuckled so hard I almost spilled my coffee.

From www.utc.edu:

Q. This question was posed to the Usenet Oracle: If you drop a buttered piece of bread, it will fall on the floor butter-side down. If a cat is dropped from a window or other high and towering place, it will land on it's feet. But what if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat land on it's feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground? -Mike
A. And in response, thus spake the Oracle: Even if you are too lazy to do the experiment yourself you should be able to deduce the obvious result. The laws of butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground, and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics demand that the cat can not smash it's furry back. If the combined construct were to land, nature would have no way to resolve this paradox. Therefore it simply does not fall.
That's right you clever mortal (well, as clever as a mortal can get), you have discovered the secret of antigravity! A buttered cat will, when released, quickly move to a height where the forces of cat-twisting and butter repulsion are in equilibrium. This equilibrium point can be modified by scraping off some of the butter, providing lift, or removing some of the cat's limbs, allowing descent.
Most of the civilized species of the Universe already use this principle to drive their ships while within a planetary system. The loud humming heard by most sighters of UFOs is, in fact, the purring of several hundred tabbies. The one obvious danger is, of course, if the cats manage to eat the bread off their backs they will instantly plummet. Of course the cats will land on their feet, but this usually doesn't do them much good, since right after they make their graceful landing several tons of red-hot starship and pissed off aliens crash on top of them.
And now a few words on solving the problem of creating a ship using the aforementioned anti-gravity device. One could power a ship by means of cats held in suspended animation (say, about -190 degrees Celsius) with buttered bread strapped to their backs, thus avoiding the possibility of collisions due to temperamental felines. More importantly, how do you steer, once the cats are all held in stasis?
I offer a modest proposal: We all know that wearing a white shirt at an Italian restaurant is a guaranteed way to take a trip to the laundromat. Plaster the outside of your ship with white shirts. Place four nozzles symmetrically around the ship, which is, of course, saucer shaped. Fire tomato sauce out in proportion to the directions you want to go. The ship, drawn by the shirts, will automatically follow the sauce.
If you use t-shirts, you won't go as fast as you would by using, say, expensive dress shirts. This does not work as well in deep gravity wells, since the tomato sauce (now falling down a black hole, perhaps) will drag the ship with it, despite the counter force of the anti-gravity cat/butter machine. Your only hope at that point is to jettison enormous quantities of Tide. This will create the well-known Gravitational Tidal Force.
Permalink Reply by Matt Tanner on July 23, 2010 at 9:58am
Watch out for the day quantum computers become a reality. Computer repair will have to be done blindfolded, because simply opening it up and looking inside will make it stop working for good.
Permalink Reply by Jaume on July 23, 2010 at 10:40am

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