Science Humor: A Wide Selection

[Greg Bernhardt]

 

[Adoniram]

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11960168_870928259629695_6701786129698772564_n.jpg?oh=c59cd535745b60faf864abf35a17b4c1&oe=568DCA62

 

[kmacv22]

RE

The mother is 21 years older than the child.
In 6 years, the mother will be 5 times as old as the child.

Question: Where's the father?

answer:
-9 months . . . think about it

What?

 

[Borg]

What?

He's implying that the father is currently in bed with the mother.

21 minus 9 months = 20.25
(20.25 + 6) / 5 = 5.25 which means that the baby is currently being conceived.

 

[Borek]

 

[DennisN]

(from http://xkcd.com/1591/)

 

[MostlyHarmless]

What is the contour integral around Western Europe?0 all the poles are in Eastern Europe.

 

[DennisN]

I read a fun section in an interview with Abhay Ashtekar (theoretical physicist):

(Interviewer):
One of them even made a claim that alternative approaches have been incorporated to string theory and, therefore, it’s the only true theory.

(Abhay Ashtekar):
Joe Polchinski, a very prominent string theorist, he did say explicitly that – this was some years ago, at KITP [Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics] Santa Barbara at its 25th anniversary. He said, well, string theory has incorporated everything. String theory is a little like Microsoft because at that time Microsoft was incorporating everything. He said loop quantum gravity was more like Apple. I thought it was a great complement! [Laughs] He explicitly said so. I said somehow I could accept Apple; at least Microsoft wouldn’t gobble us up!

Source: http://thewire.in/2015/10/29/good-scientists-solve-problems-but-great-scientists-know-whats-worth-solving-14279/ (The Wire, 29 Oct 2015)

 

[DrClaude]

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3919

 

[MostlyHarmless]

...the adverb virtually is used to modify a property so that it need only hold for a subgroup of finite index. Given a property P, the group G is said to be virtually P if there is a finite index subgroup H≤G such that H has property P...

So, finite groups are virtually trivial. What's the big deal?

 

[mfb]

They are not really trivial!

 

[Enigman]

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

New thread
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/science-jokes-p2.847743/