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This thread features a collection of science-related jokes, puns, and humorous anecdotes, primarily focusing on physics, mathematics, and engineering concepts. The discussion includes various types of jokes, some of which are derived from literature, while others are original contributions from participants.

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  • One participant shares a joke about a mathematician, a dog, and a cow, highlighting the humor in knot theory.
  • Another participant introduces a joke about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in a romantic context.
  • Several jokes reference mathematical conventions, such as the use of epsilon in calculus, with some participants seeking clarification on the humor.
  • A joke about a communication between Americans and Canadians illustrates a humorous misunderstanding, with historical context provided by a participant.
  • Participants discuss the nature of jokes, including the structure of short jokes and the implications of scientific terminology in humor.
  • There are multiple jokes involving Heisenberg, with one participant noting the brevity of a specific version of the joke.
  • A humorous take on a scientific method is shared, with some participants expressing curiosity about the referenced group of scientists.
  • Another joke involves a metaphorical description of a woman's experience during childbirth, framed in scientific terms.

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Participants generally share jokes and humorous anecdotes without a clear consensus on any specific joke or concept. Some jokes prompt requests for clarification, indicating varying levels of understanding and appreciation for the humor presented.

Contextual Notes

Some jokes rely on specific scientific knowledge or conventions that may not be universally understood, leading to requests for explanations. The humor often hinges on wordplay and the intersection of scientific concepts with everyday situations.

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Readers interested in science humor, particularly in physics and mathematics, may find this collection entertaining and thought-provoking.

  • #241
Speaking of the Sun...
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  • #242
My new trash can:

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It can take an incredible amount of trash before you have to empty it, but it takes quite a while to get it in.
 
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  • #243
Bandersnatch said:
The best I can think of is: 'yo mama so fat, her curvature is indistinguishable from flat using current best measurement methods'
Wouldn't her mass lead to spacetime curvature?
On the other hand, if she is within her own photon sphere, light could circle her perfectly.

@fresh_42: A 3 Jupiter mass black hole?
 
  • #244
mfb said:
A 3 Jupiter mass black hole?
I didn't put much effort in the calculation, I simply took a 30 cm Schwarzschild radius and fed the formula here. Should have been .2 instead of 5, but you know, the error margin :biggrin:
 
  • #245
fresh_42 said:
I simply took a 30 cm Schwarzschild radius
Interesting, that's about three times (π?) the Schwarzenegger radius (biceps radius):
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  • #246
DennisN said:
Interesting, that's about three times (π?) the Schwarzenegger radius (biceps radius):
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I don't dare to think about the association with a black hole that brought you to this ... I hope it was the time traveling aspect ...
 
  • #247
fresh_42 said:
I don't dare to think about the association with a black hole that brought you to this ... I hope it was the time traveling aspect ...
No, it was not that sophisticated :biggrin:. It was simply the similarity of the names Schwarzschild and Schwarzenegger.
 
  • #248
DennisN said:
No, it was not that sophisticated :biggrin:. It was simply the similarity of the names Schwarzschild and Schwarzenegger.
Ouch! Wrong thread though :wink:

Poor Karl ... On the other hand, he died in a war that had been caused by the assassination of the Austrian heir presumptive, so the circle closes in.
 
  • #249
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  • #250
Bandersnatch said:
Hullo

Not wanting to make a new thread for this silly endeavour, I'll ask here.

Say, if you wanted to come up with a cheeky cosmology-related science joke, what would it be? (I'm thinking, maybe, to put it on a t-shirt)

The best I can think of is: 'yo mama so fat, her curvature is indistinguishable from flat using current best measurement methods'

Any other ideas?

Yo mama so fat she has mass whether the Higgs Boson exists or not (source: http://www.jokes4us.com/yomamajokes/yomamasciencejokes.html)

Yo mama so fat the Hubble telescope used her gravitational lensing to see the big bang.

Yo mama so fat she's known as the great fattractor.
 
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  • #251
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  • #253
EnumaElish said:
Yo mama so fat she has mass whether the Higgs Boson exists or not (source: http://www.jokes4us.com/yomamajokes/yomamasciencejokes.html)

Yo mama so fat the Hubble telescope used her gravitational lensing to see the big bang.

Yo mama so fat she's known as the great fattractor.
Yo mama so fat and heavy she ate a black hole.
 
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  • #254
What is ##1.616 \cdot 10^{-35} \, m\;##?

No. It's not the Planck length.
It's the broccoli wave length at terminal velocity in atmospheric free fall.
 
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  • #255
Terminal velocity implies interactions with the environment, which quickly lead to decoherence.
 
  • #256
a little astronomy comedy from days gone by ... used to enjoy Pink panther cartoons when I was a kid


there is, in this cartoon, ( as in all cartoons) a number of serious breaking of physics laws :smile:
 
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  • #257
Very funny blog post about a ridiculously volatile compound:
Things I Won’t Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More Or Less (Derek Lowe)[PLAIN]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/...wont_work_with_azidoazide_azides_more_or_less[/PLAIN]

Some quotes:
Blog post said:
It’s time for another dispatch from the land of spiderweb-cracked blast shields and “Oh well, I never liked that fume hood, anyway”
[...]
The most alarming of them has two carbons, fourteen nitrogens, and no hydrogens at all, a formula that even Klapötke himself, who clearly has refined sensibilities when it comes to hellishly unstable chemicals, calls “exciting”. Trust me, you don’t want to be around when someone who works with azidotetrazoles comes across something “exciting”.
[...]
No, only tiny amounts of this stuff have ever been made, or ever will be. If this is its last appearance in the chemical literature, I won’t be surprised. There are no conceivable uses for it – well, other than blowing up Raman spectrometers, which is a small market – and the number of research groups who would even contemplate a resynthesis can probably be counted on one well-armored hand.
 
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  • #258
(That’s been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors)

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  • #259
I sometimes get documents that print out like this when a PDF has a font problem :smile:
 
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  • #260
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  • #261
yup, can fix anything with WD40 and duct tape :smile:

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  • #262
From which number on is ##2^n > n^3## ?

There is certainly an N.
Probably ##10##, so let's say ##20##.
Works with the nested intervals ##(2,20),(4,16),(8,12),(9,11), \ldots ## and ends up with ##9.93953514142690(5)\pm3 \cdot 10^{-15}##.
##1## kByte ##= 1,000 = 10^3## ergo ##10##.
It's ##\log \sqrt[3]{2} = \frac{1}{n} \int_1^n dx \cdot x^{-1} -dn##
Nonsense. Everybody knows that ##2 < 3##.
 
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  • #263
We are missing someone who tests n=1 and concludes that the validity starts at n=1.
 
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  • #264
mfb said:
We are missing someone who tests n=1 and concludes that the validity starts at n=1.
Sounds definitely like a politician in a talk show. I always forget about this species ...
 
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  • #265
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  • #266
mfb said:
We are missing someone who tests n=1 and concludes that the validity starts at n=1.
I was one of them. May be we can get our own spoiler! Alright, yeah! ...
 
  • #267
fresh_42 said:
From which number on is ##2^n > n^3## ?

There is certainly an N.
Probably ##10##, so let's say ##20##.
Works with the nested intervals ##(2,20),(4,16),(8,12),(9,11), \ldots ## and ends up with ##9.93953514142690(5)\pm3 \cdot 10^{-15}##.
##1## kByte ##= 1,000 = 10^3## ergo ##10##.
It's ##\log \sqrt[3]{2} = \frac{1}{n} \int_1^n dx \cdot x^{-1} -dn##
Nonsense. Everybody knows that ##2 < 3##.
Cynic logician or rigorous mathematician:
The statement of the problem is inaccurate (what is n ? , domain etc. ...)
 
  • #268
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The old "good physicist/bad physicist" routine at the lab.
 
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  • #270
the biggest biology question finally answered ...

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