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Who introduced Hawking to Susskind. What was his original profession, and what was his profession when he introduced the two scientists.
Ivan Seeking said:Who introduced Hawking to Susskind. What was his original profession, and what was his profession when he introduced the two scientists.
RetardedBastard said:You guys are including me in part of your tradition? I feel so special!
OK, on to the next question...
During World War II, as part of British propaganda against the Germans, (1) what food item did the Brits say their top pilot was eating to give the pilot near-superhuman (2) _______ . All this was actually part of a cover to provide misleading information to keep (3) what very important British invention a secret?
mgb_phys said:Carrots - we don't eat grits (In fact I don't think anyone eats grits, I think they are a trick played on tourists!)
Night vision
Radar
oh - I suppose I have to keep the thread going.
From his studies of biology what did JBS Haldane say he had found that God had an inordinate fondness for?
Close - it was a specific family, that has more species than most species have members.RetardedBastard said:I think it was insects due to the large percentage of the biomass they occupy.
mgb_phys said:Close - it was a specific family, that has more species than most species have members.
( he was also being sarcastic - JBS was the Richard Dawkins of his day)
That makes it easy - beetles. I thought the answer was going to be 'stupid people'.mgb_phys said:Close - it was a specific family, that has more species than most species have members.
Janus said:This is probably too easy, but:
Who said, "Who ordered that?", and why?
George Jones said:Rabi, in response to yet another elementary particle, the muon being discovered.
I think the statement was not really in response to the discovery of yet another elementary particle, especially given that it was made several years after the discovery. In fact, when the muon (then called the mesotron) was discovered, it was desperately hoped to be the "Yukawa particle" (the pion was discovered much later) as it seemed to have the right mass for the job. But it disappointed everyone and turned out to just be a fat, good-for-nothing lepton that played no role of significance in any way (at least, not in the strong interaction). All it ever seemed to do was goof off for a couple microseconds before it decayed into electrons and neutrinos. Oppenheimer called it the ten year joke.George Jones said:Rabi, in response to yet another elementary particle, the muon being discovered.
Gokul43201 said:I think the statement was not really in response to the discovery of yet another elementary particle, especially given that it was made several years after the discovery. In fact, when the muon (then called the mesotron) was discovered, it was desperately hoped to be the "Yukawa particle" (the pion was discovered much later) as it seemed to have the right mass for the job. But it disappointed everyone and turned out to just be a fat, good-for-nothing lepton that played no role of significance in any way (at least, not in the strong interaction). All it ever seemed to do was goof off for a couple microseconds before it decayed into electrons and neutrinos. Oppenheimer called it the ten year joke.
Ivan Seeking said:Holy crap! Olivia Newton John is Max Born's granddaughter?
I can't find the reason for probably...
George Jones said:Born introduced the probability interpretation of the wavefuntion into quantum theory.
Ivan Seeking said:Holy crap! Olivia Newton John is Max Born's granddaughter?
Ivan Seeking said:Historically speaking, and probably still true today, what disorder would sometimes extend the lives of the people who had it, and why?