Collection of Science Jokes P2

[DrClaude]

I'm not sure I believe in $\pi$. The arguments I've seen for it were pretty much circular.

 

[DennisN]

I'm not sure I believe in $\pi$. The arguments I've seen for it were pretty much circular.

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

 

[jbriggs444]

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

For any real time process, $it$ is complex.

 

[mfb]

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

Acceptable. Every transcendent argument is irrational.

 

[fresh_42]

I'm not sure I believe in $\pi$. The arguments I've seen for it were pretty much circular.

If you have a problem, you need $\pi$!

 

[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.