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The discussion revolves around a collection of science-related jokes and humorous anecdotes shared among forum members. A notable joke features a mathematician with a dog and a cow who are claimed to be knot theorists, leading to a playful exchange with a bartender. Other jokes include puns related to physics, such as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and light-hearted takes on mathematical concepts. The conversation also touches on the nature of humor in science, with members explaining the nuances of certain jokes, particularly those involving mathematical notation. Additionally, there are references to classic jokes that have circulated over the years, illustrating how humor can bridge complex scientific ideas with everyday life. Overall, the thread highlights the community's appreciation for clever wordplay and the joy of sharing science humor.
  • #851
jack action said:
Two eyes for the cat and it would be perfect!
 
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  • #852
fresh_42 said:
Two eyes for the cat and it would be perfect!
It's looking backwards
[besides, double dot would be confusing for double derivative ...]
 
  • #853
Stavros Kiri said:
It's looking backwards
Yes, but it's not Schrodinger, it's Schrödinger.
 
  • #854
Stavros Kiri said:
It's looking backwards
[besides, double dot would be confusing for double derivative ...]
fresh_42 said:
Yes, but it's not Schrodinger, it's Schrödinger.
Yours then problem too! ...
And the cat does have the eyes in fact ...
 
  • #855
fresh_42 said:
Two eyes for the cat and it would be perfect!
fresh_42 said:
Yes, but it's not Schrodinger, it's Schrödinger.
I thought the ears were the umlaut.

Beside, as long as the cat's eyes are closed, the cat is both facing frontward and rearward. :wink:
 
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  • #856
jack action said:
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Time to recycle a previous post:
DrGreg said:
Never mind Schrödinger's cat, have you seen Heisenberg's? I'm not sure...
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  • #857
jack action said:
Nice. Or make the g a cat, curled up with the descender being its tail? Beyond my art skills, I'm afraid.
 
  • #858
Planck was there all the time, the logo is just too small to see with our current resolution.
 
  • #859
The hadron physicist's morning prayer:
To decay, or not to decay, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous protons,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.
 
  • #860
Ran across one of my favorite old Dilbert cartoons recently:
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  • #861
The water cycle explained :biggrin:

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  • #862
“To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”
 
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  • #863
Pavlov is sitting on a park bench when suddenly a phone rings.
"Oh crap!" he says. "I forgot to feed the dogs!"
 
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  • #864
chasrob said:
Pavlov is sitting on a park bench when suddenly a phone rings.
"Oh crap!" he says. "I forgot to feed the dogs!"
Ha! :woot::DD! That's going to have to be my new favorite joke! :woot:
 
  • #865
Bad news, everyone!

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  • #866
In that case I must say I have a very vivid imagination
 
  • #867
nuuskur said:
In that case I must say I have a very vivid imagination
I can imagine that!
 
  • #868
So the last 6 years were all a dream? That explains a lot!
 
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  • #869
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  • #871
Frank wasn't a monster. Frank made a monster.
 
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  • #872
Only a monster would have made such a monster.
 
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  • #874
Graffiti in a men's bathroom in Leipzig's university:

Heisenberg might have been here
 
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  • #875
I swear this is a real quote from a math source. As a physicist, it made me laugh (might not be funny to mathematicians!)


Cayley's theorem, which says that any group is isomorphic to a certain subgroup of that group's group of isomorphisms.
 
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  • #876
nrqed said:
Cayley's theorem, which says that any group is isomorphic to a certain subgroup of that group's group of isomorphisms.
Do you have a quote? I know Cayley as ##G \leq \operatorname{Sym}_{|G|}## in the finite case.
 
  • #878
nrqed said:
Thanks, and yes, that's the proof, but I don't see that ##f_a## are isomorphisms, only bijections! E.g. ##f_a(1)=a \stackrel{i.g.}{\neq}1##. That was my problem: permutations are no homomorphisms. We have ##G \longrightarrow \operatorname{Sym}(G)## not ##\operatorname{Aut}(G)##. If we restricted ourselves to conjugations, we would get all central elements in the kernel, so that doesn't work. Where are the automorphisms?

All we have are automorphisms in the category ##\mathcal{Set}## but this is a very misleading wording in this context, and to say "its isomorphisms" is wrong - at least as far as I know.
 
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  • #881
That explains global warming, too!

Anthropomorphic global warming. :wink:
 
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  • #884
fresh_42 said:
Don't forget the paper! We were supposed to save paper!
Actually, I think that we have reached a point of diminishing paper. I basically no longer get any paper invoices and I read the newspapers online. Looking at the students, more and more are buying the textbooks as e-books and many assignments go directly from their computer to mine with no wood-derived product in-between.
 
  • #885
Except in between their ears...?
No, I'm sure your students are better than that!
 
  • #886
DrClaude said:
Actually, I think that we have reached a point of diminishing paper.
All diagrams I can find on the internet are ##O(t)## since 1950. I haven't found a worldwide chart and the ones I've found ended in 2005 or so, which is why I don't post them. Yes, some paper traffic has gone electric, but the vast majority of papers are the n-th copy of a meeting protocol, the 10th-copy of a joke going around in emails, or the private copies of anything. Paper is still cheap and everybody is a Gutenberg. A few online invoices don't change the trend.
 
  • #887
fresh_42 said:
I haven't found a worldwide chart and the ones I've found ended in 2005
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270317/production-volume-of-paper-by-type/
Definition:
Graphic papers products are all around you and can be found in almost any home, office or business. These include a very wide variety of paper products for uses such as newspapers, inserts, supplements, A4 copy paper and printer paper, book paper, envelopes, forms, writing pads, high-quality magazines and brochures, company magazines, catalogues and annual reports.
 
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  • #891
DennisN said:
@Greg Bernhardt , when will PF/Latex support hieroglyphs?
Haven't you noticed? It already does:
DarMM said:
$$H(g,\kappa) = H_{\phi,\kappa} + H_{\psi,\kappa} + g\colon\bar{\psi}\phi\psi\colon - \delta m^2(g,\kappa) - E(g,\kappa)$$
I think it says: 'Ptolemy was here', but Ptah only knows.
 
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  • #892
DennisN said:
@Greg Bernhardt , when will PF/Latex support hieroglyphs?
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  • #895
That's funny.
He better be back before his supper gets cold, or if he's lucky maybe she will keep it warm in the oven.:wink:
 
  • #896
Bandersnatch said:
Haven't you noticed? It already does:

I think it says: 'Ptolemy was here', but Ptah only knows.
It's the Hamiltonian for the Yukawa theory, fairly standard QFT, you'd see it in intro books.
 
  • #897
Oh, humour. That elusive beast.
 
  • #898
Bandersnatch said:
Oh, humour. That elusive beast.
I know it's a joke Mr. Silly, just thought I'd explain what it actually was. :smile:
 
  • #900
Keith_McClary said:
I’m Going on a Random Walk
In case this is not in your Physics curriculum:
Once again, however, our focus is on simple diffusion or the nearest-neighbor random walk. For these processes, the possibility of a diffusing particle making arbitrarily large excursions before certain trapping takes place leads to an infinite mean lifetime. On the other hand, the recurrence of diffusion in one dimension means that the particle must eventually return to its starting point. This dichotomy between infinite lifetime and certain trapping leads to a variety of extremely surprising first-passage-related properties both for the semi-infinite interval and the infinite system.
Section 3.1 (and the referenced Chapters 1-2).
 
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