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March 14 – Talk Like a Physicist Day
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Reminder: Talk Like a Physicist Day – March 14, 2009
Talk Like a Physicst Day: March 14, 2009
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Pi number – song put onto a clip
One number is missing in the clip – that means gods of Pi are not happy.
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Physics – Resistance is Futile
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Today’s celebrations around the world
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.
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How do I celebrate “Talk Like A Physicist Day”?
How to celebrate Talk Like a Physicist Day:
As the FAQ explains, everybody is a natural born physicist.
If you have looked at a flame and wondered how hot it is, or if you have looked at the sky at night and wondered how many other stars there are, you have already demonstrated that you have all it takes to be a physicist.
If you start asking “WHY” to the things you have wondered about, you will find yourself talking like a physicist, naturally.
Just for today, think of everything related to light in terms of photons. When you see light, think of all the photons coming to you. When you see red rose, think of all the different kinds of photons going to the rose and only the specific kind (the red wavelength one) coming back to you.
Just for today, think of all the electrons moving around in the wires to get electric power to you. Think of them as little electron people, buzzing around and passing their energies to the next electron so that you can turn on your computer.
Just for today, when you look at your LCD screen, think of little cavities in sold state system that give out certain photons to make the screen of your LCD glow.
Think of “how” things are happening at the atomic level and think of “why” they are happening that way at the atomic level.
Considering that this is the first year, it is a good start.
What is the official Drink of Talk Like a Physicist Day?
The drink is called “Dark Energy”. Mainly because we don’t exactly know what it is. Make something up and tell us how it went.
There are drinks out there called Black Hole and Galaxy but none of them fit the theme. Next year, we will have a contest and pick the best one. The winner will get the ingredients for the drink!
How do we celebrate Einstein’s birthday:
That is easy. As we have said previously, we do not honor our scientist enough. You might even know many of the scientist’s name but you don’t really know them. How many of them know how Watts looks like? How many of you know how Ampere looks like?
Here are a few pictures – take a second to thank all the physicists, past and present.
How to celebrate the Pi day:
Easy ways to remember Pi:
Can I have a small container of coffee (3.14159)
Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling (3.14159265358)How I want a drink, alcoholic of course,
after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics (3.14159265358979)
What is a Feynman Point in Pi?
The Feynman Point is the sequence of six 9s which begins at the 762nd decimal place of Pi. It is named after Richard Feynman, who once stated during a lecture he would like to memorize the digits of Pi until that point, so he could recite them and quip “nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on.
HAVE A BIG BANG DAY!
Obligatory Physics Pun for the day:
Why don’t physicists like to eat at Italian Restaurants?
They are afraid that the Pasta and Anti-Pasta will come into contact at the restaurant and the solar system, as we know it, will be destroyed.
And remember, anything that doesn’t matter has no mass! Talk Like a Physicist