Ordering a pizza from Schrödinger’s Pizzeria was a bad idea..! And the worst part? They sent Heisenberg to deliver the pizza!

• Dear Neutrino, I know you have been doping.. – Photon.
• Hey Neutrino, that was pretty fast, have you been working out? Have you lost some weight recently?
• Dear Neutrino, that speeding thing is going to cost you plenty. You will have to attend two hour class on general relativity.
• This is total identity theft by Neutrino – Tachyon.
• Dear Neutrino, Please slow down, consider our kids.

Crack in Einstien’s theory of relativity:

While others are occupied with puny little things like hurricane of category 1 and earthquake of 5.5 magnitude, I am concerned about much more violent and much bigger natural disasters.

I am worried about Supernova going off too close to the earth and messing things up!

I think we should pass a law that says “no supernova explosions within 500 light years of earth.”

As soon as I suggested this, Tea Party and NRA vehemently objected to it.

We don’t want “no supernova explosions within 500 light years of earth” law enacted because we want to keep the freedom of a star to go supernova at any time any place. Preventing supernovae within 500 light years will lead to loss of jobs, they say…

Image by Stan Howerton. Taken with Celestron 11 inch telescope.

It looks like it is as bright as the core of the galaxy – magnitude 9.9

Image by Juanjo González.

M101 galaxy is about 21M ly from our galaxy.

It is three times as bright today compared to it was on 8/27.

Just FYI, it needs to be of magnitude 6.0 before it can be seen by naked eye. It is still growing and getting brighter everyday. Chances that it will get to magnitude six is not very high.

But I still find this supernova very fascinating. There is an explosion happening with energy of trillion suns radiated in just a matter of days and we can see it happen in real time – that just tickles my fancy.

This is the biggest explosion that we will ever see.

Today supernova is brighter by a factor of 50 compared just a few days ago.

A cosmic event unfolding right in front of eyes and that too at human scale.

Theoretically awesome Pedometer just for us!

Among other things, Einstein’s theory of special relativity says that as an object’s velocity increases, time as experienced by the object will slow down when compared to another object traveling at a lower velocity. This means that a “relatively” short round trip on a space ship traveling at close to the speed of light would see you arrive home having aged less than those back on Earth. While the greater the velocities involved, the greater the effect, the theory applies to all relative movement. Now there’s an iPhone app that will let you know just how many extra nanoseconds you’ve gained by getting moving as opposed to sitting on your rear end.

To calculate just how much time you’ve gained by walking to the shops, the Einstein’s Pedometer app uses the iPhone’s GPS capabilities and the Lorentz transformation, which describes how two observers’ varying measurements of space and time can be converted into each others frame of reference. A quick stroll round the neighborhood with Einstein’s Pedometer yielded me an extra 0.00021440 nanosconds.

I just downloaded it. It is free as well, because Physicists are very frugal with time and are not known for being very wealthy either!

Also, next time I am caught speeding, I can tell the police that I was just trying to contract time.

Via Gizmodo & Book of Joe

Talk Like a Physicist Day : March 14, 2009
A nation of Einsteins

Check out the FAQ on how to talk like a physicist

From our FAQ:

How to talk like a physicist:

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.”

Canonical: Use “canonical” when you mean “usual” or “standard.” As in, “the canonical example of talking like a physicist is to use the word ‘canonical.’”

Orthogonal: Use “orthogonal” to refer to things that are mutually-exclusive or can’t coincide. “We keep playing phone tag — I think our schedules must be orthogonal”

Emprical Data: Any actual personal experience becomes “empirical data.” i.e. a burn on your hand is empirical data that the stove is hot.

Ground State: You’re not being lazy, you are in your ground state.
Extrapolation: A semi-educated guess is an extrapolation

Ideal Case: You aren’t ignoring details, you are taking the ideal case
Vanishingly small: A tiny amount is “vanishingly small” or “negligible.” Really small is “infinitesimal”

You aren’t overweight, you are thermodynamically efficient
Potential Well: Stuck in a meeting is “trapped in a potential well,” though you hope you can “tunnel out.”

Blackhole: If there is no escape, you are trapped by a black hole, from which there is no escape.

Photons: It’s not light, they are photons. Turning on the lamp becomes emitting photons.

Exercise to Reader: The rest is history becomes “the rest is left as an exercise to the reader…”

Not even wrong. Someone is making an argument using assumptions that are known to be wrong, or are making an argument that can’t be falsified. Courtesy Wolfgang Pauli. “Wait, he’s assuming Ron Paul can still win the Republican nomination? That’s not even wrong.”

For very small values of. This one, I’m afraid, I can best explain by example. “So there are four of us going to dinner.” “Three.” “Okay, so there are four of us for very small values of four.”

Super position: If something seems to act like something else, I say that it’s in a “superposition of the two states”.

Q: two trains are a approaching each other at 40 mph and are 8 miles apart, when will they cross each other? An untrained person would say “in about 6 minutes”.

A physicist would respond as:
If the trains are on the same track, they will not cross each other but run in to each other; when you say approaching each other, are the trains engines facing each other? they could go around the world and then cross each other, but for that I need to know the location of the trains. Also, I need to know the lengths of each of the trains to accurately calculate this, but in a trivially simple situation, the trains will cross each other in 6 minutes.
Again, make sure that the correct answer is always present at the end.

This is a good start, but there is so much potential here; I haven’t even used Mars bar pun yet, or postulated Punion, a smallest single unit of pun in this discussion yet!

Click on the image above to see a better readable, or the text is given below.

SK: A little piece of chocolate gives me a lot of energy, proving that Energy equals milk chocolate square.

D: But most of the energy is in the form of dark chocolate matter… Then there’s dark chocolate energy…. which is an entirely different matter…

SK: and the milk chocolate part, the part that you see, is only 7%.

Lets not forget the two dimensional manifold that surrounds and creates S4xC2 symmetric space to contain this chocolate.

P:physicist at work…..i’m reading a Deepak Chopra book on the spontaneous fulfilment of desire and loving it….i thought i was way to dumb to understand physics….

D: shortly after the chocolate (especially dark) is placed in front of me, I no longer see any of it. So, apparently the visible component spontaneously turn to the dark component. THen I can **feel** the energy…

SK: I guess you don’t subscribe to the Licorice string theory! Prof Nestle at the Hershey lab did some experiments on Toblerone and found that the visible milk chocolate expands the circumference or adds to the convexity of nearby objects, its called Twix-ass effect.

I don’t believe those results because Toblerone is so triangle, they should have used Rolo instead.

I’ll just wait for the Heath telescope to Caramelize the Milkeyway Galaxy. it is an expensive telescope, it cost 1000 Grand, some people Snicker at it, but I think it will be a Powerhouse and might even find Goobers; that will be NutRageous, a big Payday. There is some data but I want S’more.

It might even explain the asymmetry between dark chocolate and white Chocolate using the Cadbury’s Fudge factor.

Leave a comment if you think you can add to this.

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Hmmm.. considering the speed at which Starwars characters travel, this may not be fully accurate. But saying “may the derivative of momentum be with you” just doesn’t sound right.

Matrioshkas doll combined with astronomy! Astrowesome!

Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Sagan, Hawking

Made by Nate for his girlfriend who is studying astronomy.

I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of physicists cried out in confusion, and were suddenly silenced by a plot (from LHC data).

Looks like the Supersymmetry is dead! *

Last week, the anticipated signs of SUSY were missing from the early data generated by the LHC’s two experiments, ATLAS and CMS.

This is almost as bad as having a decade long on-line relationship with your “soul mate”, and then finding out that your love interest on the other side was a Nigerian scammer.

No love for low scale supersymmetry at the LHC.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2357

Don’t be upset about this. We are physicists, we are always open to the possibility that our ideas may be wrong.

Physicists: social, fair if not generous toward colleagues, open to the possibility that their ideas may be wrong, and remarkably willing to accept criticism.

* I know, it is only the Minimum Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) that seems to be in trouble. With 150 known parameters and unknown numbers of other unknowns, it can never be ruled out.

Love the little train of droplets following the drop from a faucet. The photo was taken at 2,564 fps.

Technically, any number is a “slice of pi”; any combination of number will appear somewhere in the digits of Pi. The only problem might be that your slice of Pi may not be thicker than a planer sheet of graphene.

How much do I love you? Let Avagadro count the ways!

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