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NewYorker Cartoon-off : Katz and Munroe draw cartoons related to String Theory

October 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

Farley Katz, who draws for New Yorker magazine, ran into xkcd.com’s Randall Munroe in a grocery store. He challenged Munroe to a cartoon-off — each cartoonist to produce drawings about the Internet as envisioned by the elderly, String Theory, 1999, and one’s favorite animal eating one’s favorite food.

These are the Cartoons that each of them created for the String Theory topic:

Katz:

 

katz+strng+theory+cartoon

Munroe:

XKCD_string_theroy_cartoon

Munroe was the clear winner here! Katz drawing is not even amusing! (failed pun on “not even wrong”).

Munroe is the master of cracking “inside jokes” that only a person in the field will find funny and this is no exception.

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How many LHC physicists does it take to change a light bulb?

October 1st, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

Q: How many LHC physicists are necessary to change a light bulb?

A: Two hundred and fifty two : 136 to smash it up + 114 to analyze the tiny pieces + two to write a report that changing the light bulb will not destroy the earth.

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Amazing fact about LHC and fear

September 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

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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.

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Ultimate clock for a physicist. - you gotta have this : Physics, math and Pi clocks

September 28th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

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Click for a better view. Appropriately referred to as N3rd Clock.

Do you understand all the numbers here? Explanation of the numbers is left as an exercise to the reader.

Too complicated for you? How about this one?

math_clock

Of course, there is an error in it. 3(pi-.14) does not equal 9; but that is close enough.

Can you feel your heart beat faster? Are your hands sweaty? Relax! This is just a clock! This lovely new timepiece appears to have been hand-written by that evil math teacher we all had to endure. Each hour is marked by a simple math problem. Solve it and solve the riddle of time. Or, you can just know that “52 - x2 + x = 10″ happens to live in the “7 o’clock” position and be done with it.

If you don’t like this one, you can get a Pi clock

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And a bonus triple 9 clock:

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Every hour in this clock is represented by three nines. Care to calculate?

Not sure if I like 7, which is 6.99999999 [Please no "proofs" that .999... is same as 1.0]

Triple 9 clock Via Astropixie and Bad Astronomy and Triple Nine Society.

Source of Physics Clock Hepcecob’s photostream
Math Clock can be purchased from ThinkGeek
And the Pi Clock is here. Source

Update: Here are a few more for your math pleasure:

math_clock

From the Designer

What is 90 degrees in radians? With this great clock, trigonometry will be a breeze! Inspired by my math teacher, Ms. Pinocci.

An alarm clock that requires you to do math:

math_alarm_clock

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Binary Clock:

binary_clock

A reminder clock for a physicist:

math_wrist_watch

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Outer limit clock:

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We’ll let you figure out the time on this one.

Below is the Atom 561 clock:

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This design marks the 80th anniversary of Atmos clocks by the Swiss maker Jaeger LeCoultre
The power source is a capsule that contains gas and ethyl chloride. When the temperature rises, the gas/chloride mix expands and compresses a spiral spring, whereas when the temperature falls, the gas condenses and loosens up the spring. Somehow that equals a constant winding of the clock, so no human intervention is necessary.

Source Technobob.

Clock that reveals time in text:

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From Christiaan Postima. The starting point with this project was a personal study about form & time. I put together more than 150 individual clockworks and made them work together to become one clock. I show the progress of time by letting the numbers be written in words by the clockworks. Reading clockwise, the time being is visible through a word and readable by the completeness of the word, 12 words from “one” to “twelve”. The size of the clock is 1,4 by 1,4 meter.

Star Clock from China vision

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Life Clock: not an hour clock, but a clock that tells time in years:

life_clock

It is a 84 year clock. Source

And my favorite:

clock_complex

 

time_clock

Source Tiktak clock by Dutch designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe. Via Technobob.

Ok, one more:

Planetary orbit clock

planetary_clock

little metal planets orbit a larger central planet at the middle of the “universe.” One planet signifies hours, another minutes, and the last tiny planet is the second hand. You can really only tell what time it is by viewing the clock from above, a small price to pay to show off your geek-power. Source Ebay and Gizmodo

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SCIENCE : If you ain’t pissin’ people off, you ain’t doing’ it right.

August 20th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

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Click for a better view.

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How much do you pay Verizon for the wireless data plan?

August 5th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

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Last year, there was an issue with how Verizon quoted the price of wireless data plan. They were quoting the price as 0.02 cents per kb but charging 0.02 dollars.

You can read all about it here, if you are so inclined. But in response to this basic math problem, Randall Munroe (XKCD fame) wrote the this check to Verizon.

From now on, I am paying all my bills using complex numbers as the dollar amount!

source

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Physicist’s Facebook Status Messages

July 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Physics Humor, Uncategorized

I thought it might be interesting to start gathering up the Physics related Facebook Status Messages that I have been posting on my Facebook account.

Here are some of my favorites.

  • Sunny feels the chill from the the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) being cooled to 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space. Where did I put my space heater?

  • Sunny feels like he’s diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

  • Sunny exists purely as a probability density function; he can be at more than one places at the same time.
  • Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
  • Sunny is still searching for Higgs.
  • I abhor M theory with every fiber of my being.
  • almost finished with the paper, I just has to dot my “i” and cross my “h”.
  • Sunny has learned not to store plutonium in a tupperwear container.
  • is pondering, if Schroedinger’s Cat walks into a forest, and no one is around to observe it, is he really in the forest?
  • Wanted, dead AND alive, Schrödinger’s Cat.

Hopefully we will have plenty more by the time the next Talk Like A Physicist Day comes along (March 14, 2009).

Join the facebook group for the Talk Like A Physicsits by clicking here.

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Super everything institute

July 12th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Physics Humor, Wordless Wednesday

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Soon The entire US Congress would consist of physicists!

June 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

NY Times has an interesting article about the inordinate number of physicists in the Congress.

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WASHINGTON — According to the Congressional Research Service, there are only about 30 scientists among the 535 senators and representatives in the 110th Congress, and that is counting the psychologist, the psychiatrist, a dozen other M.D.’s, three nurses, an engineer, two veterinarians, a pharmacist and an optometrist.

But physics is on a roll.

“Go back 15 years, and there weren’t any physicists,” said Vernon J. Ehlers, a Republican who taught the subject at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., until he was elected to Congress in 1993.

His was a lone voice until 1998, when Rush Holt, assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics laboratory, won election from New Jersey as a Democrat. And today there are three, adding Bill Foster, a physicist at Fermilab and another Democrat, who won a special election in March in Illinois.

“If we continue to reproduce in this manner,” Mr. Foster began, and Mr. Ehlers finished the thought, “the entire Congress would consist of physicists!”

And the reason why there are so many physicists in the congress:

“Physicists are versatile,” Mr. Ehlers said. “We live in the real world.”

And Vernon J. Ehlers also quipped:

“We’ve done the calculation,” Mr. Holt said. “By midcentury, I think, we’ll have a functioning majority.”

I bet it was a back of the envelope calculation, correct within an order of magnitude. So the physicists majority will happen sometime between 2050 and 2550…

great! I can’t wait. I wonder when will we have our first Physicist President?

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The Anime Laws of Physics

June 15th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

Here are select Anime Laws of Physics:

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#3 - Law of Sonic Amplification, First Law of Anime Acoustics

In space, loud sounds, like explosions, are even louder because there is no air to get in the way.

#11 - Law of Inherent Combustibility

Everything explodes. Everything.

#12 - Law of Phlogistatic Emission

Nearly all things emit light from fatal wounds.

#15 - Law of Inexhaustibility

No one *EVER* runs out of ammunition. That is of course unless they are cornered, out-numbered, out-classed, and unconscious.

#26 - Law of Feline Mutation

Any half-cat/half-human mutation will invariably:

1) be female
2) will possess ears and sometimes a tail as a genetic mutation
3) wear as little clothing as possible, if any

Copyright by Ryan Shellito and Darrin Bright.

More can be seen here.

All of these laws are shown in action in this clip:

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Relationship between math and physics

June 15th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

XKCD had a comment about the purity of the subject matter:

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A similar joke I have heard before:

Sociologists want to be psychologists, because if you understand the brain you can understand society.

Psychologists want to be biologists, because if you understand life you can understand the brain.

Biologists want to be chemists, because if you understand matter you understand life.

Chemists want to be physicists, because if you understand the universe you understand matter.

Physicists want to be God.

God wants to be a mathematician.

Comment by Wingy.

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We are the physics : you can do athletics, BTW : science punk rock is here

May 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Physics Humor

We Are The Physics, purveyors of the completely fictional mutant science punk rock hail from Glasgow, Scotland and first graced a stage in 2005 by mistake when Hoggboy was cancelled.

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Originally known as We Are The Physics Club And Therefore Everything We Say Is Fact, the spindly legged quartet source from bands such as Devo, The Skids, Polysics, Buddy Holly and Ex Models. Physics have been relentlessly gigging up and down the UK and across Europe, sharing stages and Haribo with bands such as Art Brut, Polysics, You Say Party! We Say Die! and 30 Seconds To Mars in an effort to become half decent all the while dancing like robots. Known for their eccentric leg manoeuvres and bad eyesight, the band have already been noticed by people they knew beforehand and are sure to make hefty waves in the metaphorical reservoir of tunes.

In January 2008 Physics embarked upon a UK tour which saw them selling out their homecoming show at King Tuts, Glasgow. They are currently gearing up for the release of their debut album ‘We Are The Physics Are OK At Music’ through This Is Fake DIY Records in May 2008. The first single from which will be ‘You Can Do Athletics, BTW’, preceding in April 2008.

Home page Wikipedia entry

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I Will Derive : All physics students should learn this

May 24th, 2008 | 6 Comments | Posted in Physics Humor, Physics Talk

First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept on thinking “I can’t do this”
With x on each side

I tried to think, control my nerve,

when I had given up all hope, I said

NO,…..

I”LL DERIVE

Derive from first principles!

If you can’t do it, you don’t know your subject.

From mindofmathew at YouTube or at MindofMathew.com

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