Posted by Sunny Kalara | 4 Comments
Facebook status messages – Physics edition.
Facebook Status messages – Physics Edition.
Yes, I am a statustician… once a day, I have to think about something witty, funny or mundane thing to say about whats happening around me… yes, I can manage that! I take special delight in coming up with esoteric ones.
Here are a few that are physics related. Many of these will require a google/wikipedia search or Arxiv archive search, but thats the fun part of it.
.. is inventing “Oil of Olay DM”, made entirely out of dark matter, to smooth out the wrinkles in space time.
is modifying general relativity.
is redshifted by 2.2; you figure out how far I am.
has a radio halo.
is going through a quantum phase transition.
is a perfect hologram.
is experiencing Lorentz contraction.
is time herding.
is doing aperiodic tiling of his bathroom floor.
is trying to reduce his Erdos Number.
is looking for some nano-blackhole cream to patch up a naked singularity.
and here is a non-physics related funny one:
I just change the name of my ipod to “the titanic” so whenever I plug it in to my computer it says “the titanic is syncing”.
You can see more physics related facebook status messages here.
Talk Like a Physicist
Posted by Sunny Kalara | 1 Comment
Happy Talk Like a Physicist Day!
Instructions on how to talk like a physicist are in the FAQ
Here are some terms that Physicists use:
Order of Magnitude: Use terms like “orders of magnitude” to describe significant differences of scale.
Negligible: When something is small, say it is “negligible” non-zero, but negligible.
Infinitesimal: If it is really really small, say it is infinitesimal.
Non-trivial: For a physicist, nothing is ever hard or difficult – it is always “non-trivial”
First-order approximation : That is only a first-order approximation to a good cup of coffee… “The living room is clean. Well…at least to a first order approximation.”
Extrapolation: A semi-educated guess is an extrapolation
Ideal Case: You aren’t ignoring details, you are taking the ideal case
Want some physics related Facebook Status messages?
Sunny is applying irresistible force to an immovable object.
Sunny is Blue shifted
Sunny believes in emergent gravity
Sunny is self diffused.
Sunny calculates everything from first principles.
Talk Like a Physicist