We still don't know what M stands for
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The Everything of Theory and other articles by Gates, Roachcock, Kangaroo & Gall. Contains embedded video, not to mention branes and GUTs.
My favorite has always been How to explain irrational conformal field theory to your children:
Oohblahdee, ooblahdaa;
Que sera, sera.
Oowa ditty ditty dum ditty dee,
Dimensions of space be thou much more than three.
Oogam boogam, ditty wa ditty;
Let all be zero who were infinity.
Ooo ee oo ah ah, ting tang wala wala bing bang;
Find a rhyme for this line and see if I care.
posted by gleuschk at 3:06 PM on January 30, 2006
Oohblahdee, ooblahdaa;
Que sera, sera.
Oowa ditty ditty dum ditty dee,
Dimensions of space be thou much more than three.
Oogam boogam, ditty wa ditty;
Let all be zero who were infinity.
Ooo ee oo ah ah, ting tang wala wala bing bang;
Find a rhyme for this line and see if I care.
posted by gleuschk at 3:06 PM on January 30, 2006
Footnote #1 was the highlight of the paper.
posted by sic friat crustulum at 3:56 PM on January 30, 2006
posted by sic friat crustulum at 3:56 PM on January 30, 2006
"oooh, oooh, scientific satire." - posted by wah
Circle gets the square!
posted by Smedleyman at 4:09 PM on January 30, 2006
Circle gets the square!
posted by Smedleyman at 4:09 PM on January 30, 2006
LOLest use yet of semicolon in satyrical scientific writing:
The details of the calculations are presented elsewhere; here we give cartoons.
posted by grumdrig at 5:30 PM on January 30, 2006
The details of the calculations are presented elsewhere; here we give cartoons.
posted by grumdrig at 5:30 PM on January 30, 2006
Even as a physics major I felt like half the jokes were going over my head, but I loved this part:
Recent cosmological observations have indicated that α=e2/ħc varies with time. The obvious interpretation is that 2 is not a constant. This may be related to the classical limit
[q,p] = iħ → 0 in lim i → 0
posted by H-Bar at 6:19 PM on January 30, 2006
Recent cosmological observations have indicated that α=e2/ħc varies with time. The obvious interpretation is that 2 is not a constant. This may be related to the classical limit
[q,p] = iħ → 0 in lim i → 0
posted by H-Bar at 6:19 PM on January 30, 2006
I was once privileged to have dinner sitting next to a Stanford physicist who won some Einstein Prize as an undergraduate at Princeton.
I ask him about string theory. He says: I can't comment on that because to review the materials would take me at least twelve years. (He was doing mathematical modeling of planetary gravitational lenses, that it turns out have all kinds of pretty internal reflections.)
I am not sure what this says about interpretive modern dance describing string theory.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:49 PM on January 30, 2006
I ask him about string theory. He says: I can't comment on that because to review the materials would take me at least twelve years. (He was doing mathematical modeling of planetary gravitational lenses, that it turns out have all kinds of pretty internal reflections.)
I am not sure what this says about interpretive modern dance describing string theory.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:49 PM on January 30, 2006
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