Curtis Peters
May2-04, 10:13 PM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>3 strings wander into town and happen into a saloon for a beer\n\none string says to the other strings, they really don\'t like serving strings\nin these parts so stay here and i\'ll go get us a beer\n\n[Moderator\'s note: where was the bar? Waterloo, Boston University\nor perhaps Penn State? :-) LM]\n\nthe string wanders up to the bar and says bartender, i\'d like a pitcher of\nbeer and 3 glass\'s, the bartender says hey wait a minute, aren\'t you a\nstring? we don\'t serve strings here!\n\nthe string wanders back to his friends and says "he won\'t serve strings\nhere!"\n\n[Moderator\'s note: he should have mentioned he was just an\ninnocent wrapped membrane, or a fivebrane wrapped on K3, or a\ndual D1-brane, a melted black hole, or a resummed quantum foam.\nIf he did so, he would have gotten the drink already back in the\n1980s. LM]\n\none of the other strings says let me have a try ok, so he ties his self in a\nknot and frays his ends and wanders up to the bar\n\n[A string can\'t really tie himself in a knot because he lives\nin 10 or 26 spacetime dimensions, and this is too large\na dimensionality to admit any linking numbers. You can always\nunlace a string in 10 dimensions, unlike the unphysical\ncase of 3 spatial dimensions. LM]\n\nupon reaching the bar he shouts bartender, I need some drinks! the bartender\nwanders over and says what can I get ya? the string says I\'ll have a pitcher\nof beer and 3 glass\'s.\n\n[That\'s obviously the 3-string interaction vertex. LM]\n\nthe bartender says you look familiar, are you a string, and the string\nreplies "no, i\'m afraid not".\n\n[Note that the string is much more polite than Stagger Lee. LM]\n\ndoes this cover strings? would you like to hear my related joke on knotted\nshoe laces???\n\n[Well, I\'m afraid that this covers strings because string theory\nis not a theory of strings anymore, which might be the reason\nwhy we\'re already allowed to drink. The specific proposal\nthat a string can turn into a non-string by making a knot\nis however probably not true. LM]\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>3 strings wander into town and happen into a saloon for a beer
one string says to the other strings, they really don't like serving strings
in these parts so stay here and i'll go get us a beer
[Moderator's note: where was the bar? Waterloo, Boston University
or perhaps Penn State? :-) LM]
the string wanders up to the bar and says bartender, i'd like a pitcher of
beer and 3 glass's, the bartender says hey wait a minute, aren't you a
string? we don't serve strings here!
the string wanders back to his friends and says "he won't serve strings
here!"
[Moderator's note: he should have mentioned he was just an
innocent wrapped membrane, or a fivebrane wrapped on K3, or a
dual D1-brane, a melted black hole, or a resummed quantum foam.
If he did so, he would have gotten the drink already back in the
1980s. LM]
one of the other strings says let me have a try ok, so he ties his self in a
knot and frays his ends and wanders up to the bar
[A string can't really tie himself in a knot because he lives
in 10 or 26 spacetime dimensions, and this is too large
a dimensionality to admit any linking numbers. You can always
unlace a string in 10 dimensions, unlike the unphysical
case of 3 spatial dimensions. LM]
upon reaching the bar he shouts bartender, I need some drinks! the bartender
wanders over and says what can I get ya? the string says I'll have a pitcher
of beer and 3 glass's.
[That's obviously the 3-string interaction vertex. LM]
the bartender says you look familiar, are you a string, and the string
replies "no, i'm afraid not".
[Note that the string is much more polite than Stagger Lee. LM]
does this cover strings? would you like to hear my related joke on knotted
shoe laces???
[Well, I'm afraid that this covers strings because string theory
is not a theory of strings anymore, which might be the reason
why we're already allowed to drink. The specific proposal
that a string can turn into a non-string by making a knot
is however probably not true. LM]
one string says to the other strings, they really don't like serving strings
in these parts so stay here and i'll go get us a beer
[Moderator's note: where was the bar? Waterloo, Boston University
or perhaps Penn State? :-) LM]
the string wanders up to the bar and says bartender, i'd like a pitcher of
beer and 3 glass's, the bartender says hey wait a minute, aren't you a
string? we don't serve strings here!
the string wanders back to his friends and says "he won't serve strings
here!"
[Moderator's note: he should have mentioned he was just an
innocent wrapped membrane, or a fivebrane wrapped on K3, or a
dual D1-brane, a melted black hole, or a resummed quantum foam.
If he did so, he would have gotten the drink already back in the
1980s. LM]
one of the other strings says let me have a try ok, so he ties his self in a
knot and frays his ends and wanders up to the bar
[A string can't really tie himself in a knot because he lives
in 10 or 26 spacetime dimensions, and this is too large
a dimensionality to admit any linking numbers. You can always
unlace a string in 10 dimensions, unlike the unphysical
case of 3 spatial dimensions. LM]
upon reaching the bar he shouts bartender, I need some drinks! the bartender
wanders over and says what can I get ya? the string says I'll have a pitcher
of beer and 3 glass's.
[That's obviously the 3-string interaction vertex. LM]
the bartender says you look familiar, are you a string, and the string
replies "no, i'm afraid not".
[Note that the string is much more polite than Stagger Lee. LM]
does this cover strings? would you like to hear my related joke on knotted
shoe laces???
[Well, I'm afraid that this covers strings because string theory
is not a theory of strings anymore, which might be the reason
why we're already allowed to drink. The specific proposal
that a string can turn into a non-string by making a knot
is however probably not true. LM]