Collection of Science Jokes P2

[DrGreg]

Please note that the use of $\pi , \sqrt{2}$ or $e$ in any argument automatically makes it irrational.

I can't count the number of irrational arguments out there.

 

[Ibix]

I can't count the number of irrational arguments out there.

How many reals could Cantor count if Cantor could count reals?

Not great, but "countables" doesn't scan...

 

[nuuskur]

First ever high resolution image of an exoplanet!
TrES-2 = Kepler 1-b
View attachment 248763

I thought I saw stars in the picture, but my screen was dusty :(

 

[Vanadium 50]

For any real time process, it is complex.

For a while, dialing an unassigned MIT phone number produced the message "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please multiply by i and dial again."

 

[Ibix]

For a while, dialing an unassigned MIT phone number produced the message "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please multiply by i and dial again."

I is on the 4 key on a phone keypad. So dial *4 after or 4* before?

 

[DrClaude]

I is on the 4 key on a phone keypad. So dial *4 after or 4* before?

Isn't * complex conjugation?

 

[mfb]

If the original number is imaginary with a positive imaginary component then taking the complex conjugation and multiplying by i will make it real and positive, but multiplying it with the complex conjugate of i will work as well.

i*$\cdot$[number] and [number]*$\cdot$i are both fine.

 

[Drakkith]

My IQ cannot be measured on the real number line. I'm just too complex!

 

[mfb]

iQ

 

[BillTre]

My IQ cannot be measured on the real number line. I'm just too complex!

Does that mean your irrational?
or imaginary?

 

[Ibix]

Does that mean your irrational?

Since the Q in IQ stands for quotient, I think all IQs are rational by definition. But he could be completely imaginary.

 

[BillTre]

@Ibix
Just edited my response.

 

[Drakkith]

Since the Q in IQ stands for quotient, I think all IQs are rational by definition. But he could be completely imaginary.

IQ = Imaginary Quotient? Psh! Get real!

 

[Ibix]

IQ = Imaginary Quotient? Psh! Get real!

I am real. You said you weren't.

(Now we have an argument. Can anyone think how to get a modulus into this?)

 

[fresh_42]

All wrong. It is an element of a $Q-$algebra. It is generated by
$$
\{\,IQ , ABQ,BBQ,Q\#,Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4,QB,QED,QLD,QM,QFT,QSO,QPR\,\}
$$

 

[jbriggs444]

All wrong. It is an element of a $Q-$algebra. It is generated by
$$
\{\,IQ , ABQ,BBQ,Q\#,Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4,QB,QED,QLD,QM,QFT,QSO,QPR\,\}
$$

It's what you wait in when your Lasik doctor has three patients ahead of you.

 

[Demystifier]

Isn't * complex conjugation?

Not for a mathematician.

 

[Demystifier]

Experimental physicist: I understand $x\gg 1$, but what does $x\rightarrow\infty$ mean?
Mathematical physicist: I understand $x\rightarrow\infty$, but what does $x\gg 1$ mean?
Practical theoretical physicist: I understand both, but what's the difference?

 

[Ibix]

I think I did once do a joke on recursion, citing the same post as a source.

Edit: here.

I knew I'd actually done this joke before: it's just in a slightly different context.

 

[DennisN]

Does that mean your irrational?
or imaginary?

I don't know about @Drakkith , but my number of friends $f$ can be written as $f = a + bi$, where $a$ is my number of real friends and $b$ my number of imaginary friends. As long as $a > b$, I consider the situation acceptable. I sometimes get into an argument with my friends. It's usually resolved as $arctan (b/a)$.

 

[mfb]

a>b

Your arguments are so limited.

 

[Mark44]

 

[BillTre]

 

[DennisN]

 

[mfb]

As long as the nose is pointing down they are not going to space today attack anyone.

 

[Drakkith]

As long as the nose is pointing down they are not going to space today attack anyone.

Ah yes, the classic Up Goer Five! Remeber, if parts start to fall off in the wrong order, you will also not be going to space today.

 

[Borg]

http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/tmrkt/ is a favorite of mine.
Wasn't sure whether to post here or in the science books thread.

 

[DifferentialGalois]

Carbohydrates: We are infested with hydroxides.
Biologists: OH!

 

[mfb]

What was the star rating for the book about stars?

Spoiler

I heard its ratings were stellar.

 

[fresh_42]

Quantum Mechanics by Dr. Mel:

Caution, if you put it back on the shelf, it changes places with other books.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Ibix]

If it barks and walks like a dog then is it a setter?

 

[fresh_42]

If it barks and walks like a dog then is it a setter?

Yes. And here is why we call those retrievers:

 

[Ibix]

Yes. And here is why we call those retrievers:
View attachment 249808

A demonstration of the Banach-Tarski paradox?

 

[Klystron]

The old monk though quite busy with other work still takes his turn walking into town to buy groceries not available within the monastery for the sick and infirm. The path is long but walking gives time to reflect. A donkey cart passes him, the drover calling out a friendly greeting in response to his silent wave. Sunlight reflecting off a wheel catches the monk's eye and he pictures the wheel's rotation in relation to the road, drawing a cycloid in his mind as the cart bounces away.

Just the shape Brother Carpenter requires to smooth the action of the mill, he thinks. The gear teeth should merge not unlike the rim of a wheel touches the surface of the road each rotation, a circle marking out the shape of the sprockets.

Entering the town market the monk selects brown onions carefully inspecting for rot, then green leeks and two heads of garlic with intact firm bulbs. Finally he enters the butcher shop whose owner greets him fondly. The monks had provided clear panes from their glass works for the butcher to display his wares in return for soups bones and the odd meat cut to serve in the infirmary.

Happy to be of service to such a learned man the butcher directs the monk's attention to the beef displayed on two shelves behind glass. Gesturing grandly the butcher asks,"Will that be Choice cut, Brother Mersenne, or Prime?".