People like that shouldn't be allowed to go to sea...One Phd failed to see the humor and fired me. A Thousand miles from land, and no mailboat. (ex mariners would understand that)
People like that shouldn't be allowed to go to sea...One Phd failed to see the humor and fired me. A Thousand miles from land, and no mailboat. (ex mariners would understand that)
"We don't allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here," said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.
ls99 said:Find it funny that physicists postulate laws for nature, then discover that nature (Physics comes ultimately from Greek phúsis ‘nature' ) does not obey man-made laws. Sucks, does it not?
No, no! It's fascinating.
Scientists observe, and develop testable hypotheses to describe what they see. When they develop a simple explanation that describes a very wide range of phenomena, and can be used to make testable predictions of how things behave in the real world, they have a good theory.
---Yes it is fascinating, and very true about theorems and observations.
Centuries ago, Newton developed his laws of motion.
---Huston we have a problem. Newton may have developed laws of motion. I doubt very seriously that any motion or inanimate object or process is aware of or cares about laws. Nature does its thing regardless of Physicists hieroglyphics or reams of roman numerals. Agree that Newton's discoveries and postulates have very good predictive value.
These work very well, letting us engineer all sorts of machines, launch spacecraft, build safe cars, and so forth. Ah, but when we make very sensitive measurements, or deal with extreme conditions of speed, gravity, or the realm of the very small, Newtons Laws are imprecise. That's where special and general relativity come into play. Einstein gave us a better theory, that matched Newton's results under normal conditions, but gave us better results out at the extreme limits.
Now we have an experimental result that is unexpected by our current understanding of physics. If there aren't problems found in the experiment, and this is a reproducible result, then there is something new to learn.
Or we could just be all cynical and call it a scheme by relativistic particle physicists to maintain full employment...
No worries about taking things seriously; xkcd is on the job:Yet the experimenters need to be reminded not to take themselves and their theorems too seriously. After all nature and its processes, at macro, micro, nano and sub-atomic levels existed long before physicists and will be around long after all that is known by humans is extinct along with those who know that they know.
Very curious about the latest measurements, if they are repeatable. Time and lots of $$$$ will tell.
Lion = you're dull.
Chimpanzee = you're dense.
Giraffe = you're a complete moron.
Squirrel = you're hopeless.
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A COCONUT TREE DOESN'T HAVE BANANAS.
Obviously you're stressed and overworked.
You should take some time off and relax,
I was talking to a good looking young woman the other day, and she asked me if I prefer legs or breasts. I told her what I really like, and now I can't eat at KFC anymore.