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March 15, 2008
Thank you Jennifer Ouellette for coming with the williant idea (Witty+brilliant idea), of Talk Like A Physicist back when the only cool people in the world were pirates.
Link to the most recent post: A couple of Physicists Sittin’ around talkin’
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Talk Likea a Physicist Day. Choose your favorite frame of reference, collapse your wavefunction, and estimate your error bars — we have a highly nontrivial day ahead of us. After years of contemplation, Talk Like a Physicist Day is finally here, as predicted. (Falsifiably!)…
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Science Fair Blog
Voting us the best FAQ of the week
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Nature Blog. Thank god its Pi Day.
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Facebook - Talk like a physicists day : Michael Gary (UCSB)
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Happy Pi Day Comment by Klossner
n addition to being Pi Day, today is Einstein’s Birthday and Talk Like A Physicist Day [talklikeaphysicist.com]
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Asymptotia - Pi Day - Einstein’s Birthday - Talk Like a Physicist Day
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A Trifecta Holiday for the Left-brain Crowd for 3/14/2008
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Great site and I couldn’t help but notice that ‘Talk Like a Physicist Day’ is coming up. =)
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Zenobia: Empress of the East
Hurrah! I’m here to help you celebrate ‘Talk Like A Physicist Day’ and, because I’m a Classical Archaeologist… more
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Talk Like a Physicist “Because we are at least as cool as pirates…
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Beauty redefined: According to my preliminary observations, the current 24-hour period is Talk Like a Physicist Day! The day coincides with the anniversary of the birth of one Albert Einstein, as well as the day on which we celebrate the transcental number ?. Under the assumption that I am not a physicist, it would be necessary to use a perturbative approach to alter my speech patterns to more closely match that of other physicists.
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Talk Like a Physicist Day : US LHC blogs
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N-dimensional Dia de falar como um Físico: Hoje é o Dia
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Physicality of Words : Talk Like a physicist : Because I have friends who understand what I mean, I have the habit of asking people for their boundary conditions when I want to make plans together with them. And when i didn’t know the English word “slide” at the playground, I asked what to call the thing that is like an inclined plane. Some think that’s funny.
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The Newest New Yorker. Today is National “Talk Like a Physicist Day!” WHY? “Because we’re at least as cool as pirates, that’s why.”
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everyday phenomena that can be described using mathematical models, like the analogy of moving traffic to a compression wave or the pseudo-forces that you can experience while moving in a non-inertial frames (aka, riding in a bus that is turning corners). If that is not up your alley, why not at least try playing some physics games or simulations?.. more
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While today was chosen because it is Albert Einstein’s birthday, I really think that the goal was to take some attention away from those media-hogging mathematicians and their Pi Day fête.
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Any actual personal experience becomes “empirical data.” i.e. a burn on your hand is empirical data that the stove is hot.
You’re not being lazy, you are in your ground state.
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The Best celebration picture is from
Flip Tomato
An American Physics Student in England
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Send us your celebration notes and pictures (by leaving a comment or by emailing) and the select ones will be posted here.
Horaayy..there are 7 comment(s) for me so far ;)
Well, I wrote a celebratory post. I’m working on a comparative neuroanatomy lab now; there isn’t enough of a critical mass of physicists around here to get a proper celebration going ;^).
While visual images recording my celebration of Talk Like a Physicist Day are unavailable, I have written an abstract of the day over on my blog.
talk like a physicist, but don’t dress like one…there is fashion police mafia out there and they are first on the list.
Here’s a biochemist’s contribution:
DNA.?
A base ‘n’ sugar, phosphate
?do create?
sweet and spicy flavored
?all-color’d?
biology chemistry pie…
(3.141592653589793)
Don’t forget SLAC today:
http://today.slac.stanford.edu/
One cool way to talk like a physicist is to never refer directly to “zero” or “one.” Instead, refer say the quantity is vanishingly small, or vanishes, and say “unity” instead of “one.”
If you run a red light today (or go to court over it today), beware of trying the apocryphal (?) tack of claiming that Doppler blue shift made the red light look green (or yellow.) Supposedly the physicist who posed that excuse some years ago faced a scientifically literate judge, to his dismay. The judge calculated that the driver had to be going around 100,000,000 mph, and fined him accordingly! It’s not always wise or clever to talk like a physicist, even if you are one.
(Does anyone remember when/where they head that one?)
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