Sep 30, 2008

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Amazing fact about LHC and fear

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LHC has generated:

339,000 instances of Blackhole fear episodes
104,000 instances of "destroy earth" fear episodes
24,200 instances of "destroy universe" fear episodes

but did you know that:

Since its approval in 1994, the Large Hadron Collider has generated over 1.36×10^16 jokes?

Here is one more: How many LHC physicists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer is 252.

Source & Google searches. Talk Like a Physicist

Sep 30, 2008

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Happy First Marriage Anniversary to Jennifer and Sean; Complete with Euler’s Identity Greeting

Happy first marriage anniversary to Jennifer (Cocktail Physics) and Sean (Cosmic Variance).

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May your love be as true
and
your life be as interesting
as
the Euler’s Identity.

Secret of not just a happy, but a spectacularly joyful and meaningful marriage is to follow 4 Bs.

Separate Bedrooms
Separate Bathrooms
Separate Bank Accounts and
Separate Blogs

I don’t know about the other elements, but at least they have the separate Blog part covered!

Happy Anniversary Jennifer and Sean!

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As many of you know, this website “Talk Like a Physicist” was started with Jennifer’s musings about how Physicists are cooler than pirates and we should have our own day to celebrate.

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Sep 30, 2008

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Tuesday Physics Tattoo : Heart shaped Pi tattoo

A heart shaped Pi tattoo : "Unleash the Pi"

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Scuffinator’s Photostream on Flickr

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This is so remarkable and I am not going to ruin it by adding some other lame picture of an unimaginative pi tattoo.

It is very easy to have Pi on your mind, but it is very hard to get Pi in your heart! Talk Like a Physicist