Collection of Science Jokes P2

[Ibix]

I don't get this

I think the Facebook user is adding confusion to this, yes. The hypotenuse has "length" zero, but non-zero projections on to both the horizontal and vertical axes.

As Orodruin notes, the diagram is a Minkowski diagram, widely used in relativity as a "map" of a two dimensional spacetime (one time, one space dimension) using the old "imaginary time" approach.

 

[collinsmark]

I just don't get it

As @Orodruin and @Ibix point out, it is a valid form of geometry, albeit non-Euclidean, akin to flat, Minkowski spacetime. However, the facebook user was overthinking it (you can probably ignore the facebook user's comments).

As a special bonus, you can even do "trigonometry"-like operations in such geometries of such right triangles, except instead of using sin(), cos(), and tan(), etc., you can invoke their hyperbolic equivalents, sinh(), cosh(), and tanh(), etc.

 

[gmax137]

I think the Facebook user is adding confusion to this, yes.

Really.

My "poem" would be:
$H^2=A^2+B^2$
$H^2=i^2+1^2$
$H^2=-1+1=0$
$H=0$

 

[Orodruin]

I think the Facebook user is adding confusion to this, yes.

That is so weird though. Random Facebook comments are usually such a fount of indisputable knowledge …

 

[berkeman]

 

[Swamp Thing]

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"I got to work at 10, then grabbed a latte. Then I headed over to the gym. Then me and a couple of friends went to the salad bar for a quick bite before heading to our cool new Tibetan themed meditation center. Then we had this all-hands townhall zoom meeting..."

 

[fresh_42]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[Bandersnatch]

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That's cheating. If adding extra elements to aluminium could count as making it transparent, then they wouldn't have to wait until the 22nd century to invent it - they could have just dug up some corundum from the ground.

 

[davenn]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[davenn]

You know, this just doesn't seem like a great idea to me ....

 

[berkeman]

 

[Orodruin]

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Two things come to mind:

1. The objects in the left picture are ever so slightly bigger than the man in the second.
2. The instrument used for the left picture costs ever so slightly more than that used for the right.

 

[Ibix]

The instrument used for the left picture costs ever so slightly more than that used for the right.

Webb cost the better part of $10bn (I looked it up because I was just about to make a similar comment).

 

[davenn]

 

[davenn]

 

[phinds]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Frabjous]

 

[davenn]

“…when it is least convenient.”

 

[fresh_42]

“…when it is least convenient.”

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That was definitely one of the better ones! Last automatic update took hours!

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Orodruin]

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Where is the joke? This is my wife’s last birthday cake:

(Yellow candles were lit when it went ”live”)

 

[Frabjous]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Ibix]

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A colleague used to edit an internal newsletter with things of professional interest for people in various scientific or numerate roles. Having the kind of sense of humour that would go well on here, he used that pie chart (without the key) as the logo. He was very disappointed to discover that the next editor had changed it to use our corporate standard colour scheme and ruined the joke.

 

[BillTre]