physicists only have 5 jokes
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- The most boring person you know explains the joke. That makes them more funny right?
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A physicist, an engineer, and a statistician are hunting a deer. They see it in the distance. The physicist calculates a parabolic trajectory, pulls back the bowstring the calculated amount and fires. The arrow lands 10 feet short. The engineer adds in a fudge factor for air resistance, pulls back the bowstring and fires. The arrow lands 10 feet long. The statistician yells "we got him!"
Yep, I think this really is funny. Hey, I laughed.
This one got me, lol.
That is actually funny.
Yeah, same here. Laughed for real. Thank you!
Very similar to the 'proofs' of 2 + 2 = 5.
I didn't realize that Einstein was a real person. I always thought he was a theoretical physicist...
Oops... Looks like you got there first.
Laugh out loud I finally got one😂
Uuugggghhhhh
That's better than the 2 jokes I bothered to listen to.
Her future is not on the web.
"Consider a spherical cow radiating milk uniformly" is the way we told it, because radiating milk uniformly is funny.
"...neglecting air resistance."
@@AwestrikeFearofGods it's in a vacuum!
I only recall the spherical cow part from Case. Is that the grad school version?
Barak, you're right, that is funnier!
love it
A zoo couldn't get their snakes to reproduce, until a mathematician advised them to put some dead trees in the terrarium. It worked, and they asked the mathematician how he knew. He answered, "They're adders, they need logs to multiply."
That's funny, but it is a mathematician joke, not a physics joke.
@@edwardblair4096 ..well its the logs that matters ....
A string theorist is kissing his secretary when his wife walks in. She bursts into tears and turns to run out. The string theorist yells, "Wait! I can explain everything!"
That's actually the first one that made me chuckle :D
Definitely a good one.
hahaha Now THAT's funny
I dont get it. Can u plz explain it?
@@Hollowd90 String theory claims it can explain everything, but it's hard to pin down
Heisenberg got pulled over, trooper asks him, "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No sir I do not", replies Heisenberg. "80, you were doing 80." Heisenberg exclaims , "Great, now I'm lost."
"I'm an old man! Where am I?!"
I've heard this joke in compound with the Schrodinger and Ohm. After that the cop decided to check their trunk and found a dead cat, Schrodinger yelled "you killed it!". The cop started arresting them for it, but Ohm resisted.
That is funny!
This is the joke I came here for 😁👍
Newton, Pascal and Galileo were playing hide and seek, Newton picked up a stick and drew a square with 1m sides and stood inside it. When Galileo had finished counting he yelled "I found you Newton!", to which he replied "No, this is Pascal".
My #1 go-to joke is "When does a joke become a dad joke?" "when the punch line becomes apparent".
a good dad joke on dad jokes !
At a university, a student must have been studying statistics becasue they were on the roof of the tallest building ready to jump off and unalive themself. The physics professor was walking by, realized what was about to occur and shouts, "Don't jump! You've got so much potential!"
Shouldn’t that be “TOO much potential?” 🤓
@@yonason6047 either version works. But yours is slightly better
My personal favorite:
Student: "What is spin?"
Teacher: "Imagine a ball that's spinning but it's not a ball and it's not spinning"
And of course it's year 1 undergrad cousin "A tensor is a thing that behaves like a tensor"
That reminds me of an art joke that riffs on those old "how to" guides: "How to draw Mickey Mouse... first, you draw a circle... then you draw a diagonal line bisecting the circle... then you draw Mickey Mouse holding the circle with a diagonal line bisecting it." :P
Almost like a Zen koan
I never taught of it as a joke. It's a bit absurd, but weirdly it makes sense.
it's like category theory's "what is a monad?"
except spin is actually useful as opposed to monads
except except there's Haskell
A countably infinite group of mathematicians walks into a bar. The first says "I'll have a beer". The second says "I'll have half a beer". The third says "I'll have a quarter of a beer". The bartender sighs and pours two beers and puts them on the bar, saying "you guys really should know your limits".
This joke should have more likes
A software tester walks into a bar and orders one beer. A software tester walks into a bar and orders 0 beers. A software tester walks into a bar and orders 10 million beers. A software tester walks into a bar and orders -1 beer. A software tester through the window into a bar and orders a beer...
@@davidseim3064The user walks into a bar and orders a can of coke.
I was going to reply with a joke about an asymptote, but I couldn't quite get there.
@@itzzausty bar.exe crashes
A Higgs Boson walks into a bar. The Bartender says, "You've got some nerve walking in here. We have a lot of Catholic patrons, and they're pissed that people call you the God particle".
The Higgs Boson says, "But without me, there wouldn't be Mass".
Only works in English. Still a nice one!
@matta5498
_Also,_ it's not even _it's fault_ it was called that! 😂
@@c.augustin
Huh...
I didn't actually think that was a good point at first, but physics jokes _are_ normally pretty linguistically universal, aren't they? 😅
I went to my local library the other day, and I asked the librarian if they had this one book about Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat. She said that it rings a bell, but she wasn't sure if it was there or not.
The phirst physicist to do Shrödingers cat as a joke was Claud Balls...
Ok... let me fix how you tell it: I went to my local library the other day, and I asked the librarian if "SHE" had this one book about Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat. She said that the "title" rings a bell, but she wasn't sure if it was there or not.
It's clearer my way. You're welcome.
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Bet you’re a blast at parties.😒
@@jonahschaeffer274 I know how a joke should be told...
@@blackandgold676I disagree. "SHE" doesn't feel right because it's the library that has the book, not the librarian herself.. And "the title" isn't really necessary, because it's not like you wouldn't get the joke without being told that it's the title, we get what they meant the first time without issue..
The bartender says "We don't serve tachyons here." A tachyon walks into a bar.
This is super clever and hilarious
This deserves more likes. Brilliant. LOL!!!!
Yeah this one is one of my favorites
Yawn. I'm sorry, but it's a hypothetical particle and the situation being hypothetical isn't part of the joke. Rejected.
NICE
“Because it’s only 10 years away…” Angela’s own physics joke.😂
might not be so silly an idea
I was about to come here and say there's one more joke, and you just used it (this one). But now that I think about it, this might be the only channel where I've seen that used as a joke.
I can't believe that joke wasn't included in this list, literally any time a physicist brings up fusion it's quoted
"10 years away" is a timeless engineering/r&d joke
@@seaskiprsailingexperiences9920 It's been hilarious for decades.
A particle store is selling protons and electrons. But, it's giving away neutrons because there's no charge.
The first joke: "He picks up some chalk and goes to the white board...". I thought that was the joke.
There's actually a 6th original physicist joke, but finding it is left as an exercise to the reader.
No, that's a math joke.
For sufficiently low values of funny.
Straightforward but tedious!
@@JimCif you look at the formulae table you will see that because sin(x) = x therefore it’s a physics joke
@@JimC im sure there was something about that written in the margin ?
The funniest part (in my view) of the spherical cow joke is nearly always left off. The physicist says "imagine a spherical cow in a vacuum radiating milk uniformly in all directions..."
Now it’s funny
Yes! I was going to post this same adjustment if someone else hadn't. "Radiating milk uniformly in all directions," is the best part! I hadn't heard it was in a vacuum, but that's good. And the set up was way too long for my taste. Thanks for posting. And thanks Angela for including this joke.
Thank you. :)
Another version that I've heard is "imagine a spherical cow in a vacuum. If you apply spin it will radiate milk uniformly in one plane." I guess a spinning ellipsoidal cow could radiate milk in all directions.
Honestly it’s better without.
The best one is from Einstein: Quantum Physics: the dreams that stuff is made of
Schrodinger's vet: "Dr Schrodinger? It's about your cat: I have some good news and bad news...."
Shouldn't it be 'or bad news?'
Computer scientists have 10 jokes. Both of them are funny!
Computer science dad joke for the win! 🙂
Maybe there will be 11 jokes - all three will be funny.
You mean, there are 10 types of person. Those who understand binary and those who not?
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That was a parent
What are the two most difficult problems in programming? 1) Naming things. 2) Managing caches. 3) Off by one errors.
100 quadrillion neutrinos walk into a bar, one of them says ouch.
A tachyon backs into a bar...
this is the only one so far ive actually laughed out loud to. thank you.
very nice lmao
A neutrino walks into a bar and the barman says: "I'm sorry, we don't serve neutrinos here," and the neutrino replies: "That's fine, I'm just passing through."
A room-temperature superconductor walks into a bar. The bartender says: "We don't serve room-temperature superconductors here!" The room-temperature superconductor leaves without any resistance.
The simpler, the better. "A neutrino, walks through a bar....."
i'm 2 minutes in and I heard you say "...he grabs a piece of chalk and he walks to the white board..." and I was sold. you're a comic genius.
Haha, lol. :D
I want to thank you Angela Coller, this video really affected me. I always wanted to become a physicist and your video was eye opening in regard to the truths of being a physicist. I will now pursue a career as a twitch moderator.
- What's a polar bear?
- A Cartesian bear after a coordinate transformation.
That one is great. Should get more likes.
And either type of these bears can be transformed into a bipolar bear with simple coordinate transformation. So better to presume any bear in the wild is bipolar.
@@walterbushell7029 I do know they are soluble in water 🤭
That's unbearable.
And here I thought it was a bear that dissolved in water
The two biggest jokes commonly written in text books are the word "trivial" and the phrase "left as an exercise for the reader"
Liked it!
I used to date a physicist (who also learned English as an adult). He would drive me up the wall with that word "trivial" 😂
I sometimes use the "obvious" version of that joke.
"Surely" it's "just"..... are the two biggest trivial jokes..
"Simple corollary"
Progress in Physics:
Newtonian Mechanics can't solve the 3 body problem
Relativistic Mechanics can't solve the 2 body problem
Quantum Mechanics can't solve the 1 body problem
String Theory can't solve the vacuum
I have trouble with the two body problem.
I think it’s a lack of attraction.
"Taking the natural log of -1 is as easy as pi", Euler imagined.
Einstein developed a theory about space. And, boy, it was about time, too!
I didn't realize that Einstein was a real person! I always thought he was a theoretical physicist.
Actually, it was timespace, not as funny. At least we know what causes gravity now. We are moving too slowly
Angela says that's not funny.
I however, am laughing my butt off.
@@holeymcsockpuppetwhere did she say that?
@@holeymcsockpuppet Where is that on a holey sockpuppet? Just curious.
Q: Why does a burger have less energy than a steak?
A: Because it’s in its ground state.
I didn't know that one, thanks for the good laugh. :D
Ouch.. thanks though
Great punchline, but I think we can do better for the setup :)
Q: Why was the hamburger free of charge?
Q: Why do they charge less for a burger than for a steak?
Q: Why do electricians prefer burgers over steaks?
@@thejuggler42 "ground state" refers to the state of lowest energy (of an atom usually, but it is also used for other things), it has nothing to do with charge. So the original setup was spot on, your alternatives are actually worse.
It's also a term in electrical engineering. Sometimes words have multiple uses! @@bjornfeuerbacher5514
I'll burn in hell but I laughed when I heard you say that Heisenberg was uncertain. Didn't hear that one before :D
Me too.
One of my undergraduate textbooks had a line to the effect of "degenerate eigenstates are not necessarily reprehensible". Took me a while to understand the joke, partially because it had never occurred to me that there would be a joke in a physics textbook.
Reminds me of reading an article in an economic text in undergrad, where the author nonchalantly referred to a piece of legislation as the "The Tax Lawyers and Accountants Relief Act of 1998". It took me a few beats before realizing that it was a joke (about the complexity of the statute).
@gordonlong5128 Can you explain it for those of us who haven't studied physics?
@@Vagabond-Cosmique The joke part is that in common language "degenerate" is usually used as a derogatory remark about a person that the speaker assumes the listener would be disgusted and repulsed by in some way. The write of the book is saying that just because some eigenstates are degenerate, there is no reason to hate them. The physics part is something close to this: you may think of eigenstates as the possible outcomes or states of something before it is observed and is forced to be in the one, observed, state. If different observations eigenstates produce the observed state, they are described as "degenerate".
@@PsychedelicChameleonWell I am glad you cleared that up! 😳😂
Whenever anyone asks me why I'm majoring in electrical engineering, I always say that it seemed like the path of least resistance.
Resistance is futile.
I need to meditate on that for awhile. Ohm ... Ohm
Ohm my, that’s shocking! 😂
That's a D(e)ad joke...
Perhaps you had the capacitance for it, so they inducted you into the field.
I think my favourite is from Futurama: "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
honestly i always thought that marked the beginning of the end for futurama, i didn't find it all that funny
@@UnshavenStatueFirst three seasons were amazing, it fell sharply after that.
Futurama is full of them. Lots of them visual.
I love when they travel to the edge of the universe and use a telescope to see the neighbouring universe where everyone is a cowboy. Fry asks if there are infinite universes but is informed that there's just two.
So Einstein says to the conductor, "Does Baltimore stop at this train?"
This is a true story: my friends came over to see my daughter soon after she was born. My friends included a physicist (P.W.) and an engineer (P.F.). My daughter's initials, embroidered on her blanket, were E.R.G. Seeing these initials the physicist said "she is a bundle of energy!" The engineer said "she is your little joule."
So cute 🥰
Naming your children to reap the benefits of obscure humor is A-level dadding.
@@PatrickKQ4HBD Thank you Patrick! 73, Harry (WA6VYT).
My favourite biology joke when teaching is "in school you learned the 3 Rs. Now you are in biology 101, we will be studying the three Fs - feeding, fighting and reproduction."
Feeding' fighting fornication
@@onradioactivewaves close, but no cigar
what are the 3 Rs ?
@@isaz2425 readin' ritin' and ryhtmatic
@@isaz2425 reading, writing and arithmetic.
every programmer has made two errors in their life: a memory leak, a stack overflow, and an off by one error
That's funnier than anything she said but you can guess my profession.
Love it! In my first year of college way back in 1981, one of the earliest concepts I remember my computer sci professor introducing was plus-or-minus-one error, and it quickly ingrained itself in my brain's OS. It shows up all over the place in real-world problems, not just software development. Often one of the first things I look for.
the two hardest problems in software development: naming things, cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.
most underrated meta joke!
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
You know, friction has been a very sticky subject for a very long time.
A cow is not spherical, but a torus!
Perhaps even one of those Klein manifolds.
that's a load of bull
Yes but that's what the mathematicians would say. What do physicists have to do with topology? Other than that they too use coffee cups.
99% of plasma physics experts regret having their favorite joke displaced. It's a dark matter for them.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
That's funny!
Not really, it left them with a truly dark energy
Kindred! Also, about 87.639% of all statistics are completely made up.
But, seriously, does it matter.
A photon checks into a hotel. The concierge asks "Do you have any luggage?"
The photon replies "No, I'm traveling light"
Anytime I hear a Schroedinger's Cat reference I can never know as a certainty if the cat is laughing.
Nobody saw him ever again.
This too is a sweet one: C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁@@user-hy9nh4yk3p
I am sure everyone knows the joke about the Higgs boson that walks into a bar.
I tried, but couldn't find it.@@ibizenco
Quantum Physicist 1 "Do you know where my pen is?".
Quantum Physicist 2 "No, but I know how fast it's going."
Police officer: "You were driving 80 mph in a 60 mph zone"
Physicist: "Oh great, now I'm lost"
okay okay okay. the timing on "it's only ten years away" was comedy gold.
GOLD!
"Controled Fusion is only ten years away." I think that is the funniest physics joke.
It's certainly one of the oldest ones...
They didn't say which ten years, did they?
Controlled fusion has been 10 years away for decades. Ergo, time is still.
that's COLD man...
You told it wrong. It's: Controlled fusion is just over the horizon, keeping in mind that the horizon is an imaginary line which recedes as you approach it.
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were in a hotel for a convention. Then, in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, a fire breaks out in the engineer's wastebasket. The engineer rushes over to the bathroom, empties out the ice bucket, fills it with water and pours it into the trash can, dousing the fire. Satisfied that the problem was solved, the engineer goes back to sleep.
Shortly thereafter, a fire broke out in the physicist's wastebasket. The physicist rushes to the bathroom, whips out his calculator, frantically does a few computations, pulls out a cup, fills it to a precisely measured level, and rushes back to the wastebasket, pouring the water onto the fire. As the last drop hits the flame, the fire goes out. Satisfied that the problem was solved, the physicist goes back to sleep.
Finally, a fire breaks out in the mathematician's room. The mathematician rushes to the bathroom, sees the ice bucket, sees a cup, sees the water faucet. Satisfied that the problem could be solved, he goes back to sleep.
The mathematician moves the wastebasket into the engineer's room, thus reducing it to a previously solved problem.
so in my browser, only the engineer bit was above the fold. And I thought that was the end of the joke. WHy yes, I *am* an engineer ;)
So true! 😂 (Mathematician here.)
The way I heard it, after the physicist makes his observations, he calls the engineer and tells him “there’s a fire in my waste basket. Come on over and I’ll tell you how to put it out.”
After the mathematician makes his observations he say “A solution exists” and then goes back to sleep.
Amazing how these things pick up variations over time.
I'm an Engineer, I would not have wasted time emptying the ice, I would just have added water!
The 3 states of matter:
Does,
Doesn't,
Don't care
True story: Physicist George Gamow was working on a paper about the big bang alongside his research student Ralph Alpher (who would go on to have quite the career in his own right). When it was ready for publication, he prevailed upon fellow physicist Hans Bethe to add his name to the list of authors. That way, when they submitted it, this paper on the beginning of everything was officially authored by Alpher, Bethe, Gamow.
“Because it’s only 10 years away…” was the best joke
I am old enough to remember when it was 25 years away.
@@kensmith5694and when was that? 25 years ago?
@@ghoust592more like 50 years ago.
It must be true. Experts have been saying so for decades.
@@kensmith5694That means "they" already have it but are hiding it from us. 🤔
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Classic
Yogi Berra said it first.
I prefer to phrase this as "The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there isn't one."
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice,
while in practice there is."
- Benjamin Brewster, “The Yale Literary Magazine” (Feb 1882)
@@himagainstill I've always preferred it framed as a question. "What's the difference between 'in theory' and 'in practice'? In theory, nothing..."
I like the Tom Swifty (e.g. "You MUST go in one slit or the other" said a stern Gerlach -- then waved them through without interference.)
The fact that we as physicists take Schrodinger's Cat seriously as a teaching tool for quantum physics is quite funny.
Erwin is both spinning and not spinning in his grave simultaneously.
My first quantum mechanics course was in third year. I frankly didn't believe what the professor was teaching us. I thought what he was saying was so obviously wrong that he must have misunderstood what he was trying to tell us. I found that type of confusion was fairly common with my professors. Then I ran into the Schrodinger's cat thing and I understood. The thing about Schrodinger's cat example is not that it's so ridiculous that it proves Quantum Mechanics is false. The thing is that it's a perfect example of how Quantum Mechanics actually works.
The absurdity of Schrödinger's cat reminds me of a math joke. A mathematician is looking at a house. He sees 2 people enter, and then he sees 3 people leave. He then thinks to himself "Wow! If one more person enters that house, it will be empty!"
The number 7 and the number 4 are standing on the sidewalk having an interesting conversation when a taxi cab pulls up. The square root of 2 jumps out of the cab and starts yelling a bunch of random nonsense, then runs off. The number 7 looks at number 4 and says: "I told you he was irrational."
I don't think he is a mathamatian, I think he is a theoretical physicist working on string theory.
That reminds me of one my high school math teacher told us:
e^x was walking along in a park when suddenly x^2 comes up to him and shouts “What are you doing! Don't you know there's a madman deriving everyone to 0!” but e^x answered “bwah I'm not scared of that!” and keeps walking. Then 1/x comes up to him and says the same but e^x keeps walking, after a while he's the only one in the park and remarks “it's good to be your own derivative” only for dx/dy to jump out of the bush behind him.
No says the statistician. It's a rounding error. On average 2.5 people went each way.
Mathematicians treat negative numbers the same as positive numbers. When 3 people leave, there are exactly -1 people in the house, based on observation. Therefore, it requires one more person to enter in order for there to be 0 people in the house. @@stevenpace892
More a mathematician joke:
You have dialled an imaginary number. Please turn your phone through 90 degrees and try again.
I'm a mathematician. I've never heard that one! Very funny!
There are only 10 types of people in this world - Those that understand binary, and those that don't.
Nah, you'll have to square it away and negate this joke if you want it to be positive...
@@lukearts2954 LoL.. You are right, of course, but why are (we) nerds so competitive when it comes to jokes? 😂
A mathematician or an electrical engineer...
You sneaked in the best Physics joke at 11.20 - nuclear fusion, only 10 years away!
😂
I thought a physicist was just someone who makes soda.
“I guess it’s free” still haunts my 16 year old self working at the checkout.
I had it happen to me for real. I was buying a lot of parts in a hardware store. Among this was a part that wouldn't scan. After several calls to the plumbing department to try to get someone to come tell her what it is, she just threw it in the bag and said "take it". I would not want to be the next person from hardware that had to deal with her because it was clear that she was more than a little angry. This much not have been the first time that day.
@@kensmith5694There's this one brand of Wasabi Peas that I like, but I don't buy often because the barcode is on a curved part of the can which never scans correctly and its a whole thing. I'm pretty sure retail has gotten pretty close to just letting me walk out with them.
If it helps, I usually say "You know what it means when it doesn't ring up? It means it's not in the system for some reason, do you want me to go check what the price was?"
@@sterlingphoenix Don't just offer to get the price because that doesn't really help. Instead, offer to go take a picture of the barcode on the shelf, because that will have the item number and description on it which the cashier can use to look up the SKU. This isn't the 1950s-product cannot be sold without a SKU because it throws off the inventory counts. Sure there are some rare exceptions, especially in smaller stores where things are more informal, but e.g. Home Depot won't sell anything without the SKU.
Anyway, it's quite rare for something to be "not in the system", and if that's the case it means the store is not doing manual inventory counts frequently enough. Usually the entire store is counted 4 times each year, and SKU-less products get weeded out pretty quickly.
Well that sounds like a 'Kafka event'. Which is, at least, twice as funny; if you know what I am referring to ! @@cmmartti
A favourite of mine in maths circles is
A lecturer makes some remarks at the blackboard, and he said "this is obvious". A student raises his hand and says "sorry professor, I don't think that is obvious". The lecturer stares at the board, back at the students. He thinks for a bit. He starts pacing in front of the class, thinking. He looks back at the board. Eventually he leaves the room, comes back 20 minutes later and says "I've thought about it and yes, it is obvious".
idk if it was a brilliant bit of intent or a happy coincidence but the "show more" button absolutely perfectly hid the punchline for this and I love it
Isn't this told as an anecdote about Wolfgang Pauli?
often i think yeah but afaik the real origin isnt super clear@@TheBlindfischLP
I’m really sorry but I don’t get it. Can you explain it for a non-maths person?
@@JamEngulfer you mean to say... it isn't obvious? 😆
A physicist, a chemist, and a statistician are in a bar when a fire starts. The physicist says, "We need to cool it down to remove energy," the chemist says, "No, no, no, we need to cut off oxygen as one of the reagents." The statistician starts running around the bar, lighting more fires and yelling, "We need a larger sample size!"
works for a machine learning specialist, too.
Wow Angela! You certainly succeeded in inspiring zillions of jokes! That is way more than five!
no it isn't
An ice cube sits at the bar, slowly dripping onto the floor. The bartender says "Hey buddy--why so sad?" and the ice cube says "I'm OK. I'm just going through a phase."
The ice cube was in denial. If he was 0K, he wouldn't be melting.
In the next chair was a block of dry ice.
She was sublime. 👍🖖
heres one for the biologists:
a joke is like a frog
it stops working once you dissect it
I knew it like this: Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. you understand it better, but it dies in the process.
A bad joke is only one that you didn't provide enough setup for.
@@antonf.9278i learned it like explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog, no one enjoys it and the frog dies. Since i heard this joke i have referred to anyone explaining a joke as dissecting the frog and no one gets it
Very appropriate
This made me want to drink coomassie blue
I’ve always heard the Spherical Cows joke as “I’ve figured out the solution, but it only works on perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum”
"only works on" misses the point. for a physicist a spherical cow in a vacuum is a good approximation of the real thing and the solution is valid, with some error margin.
@@avinoamwcat I think it’s a decent critique of the way some theoretical physicists treat their models and simplified solutions as if they’re actually applicable to the real world. If you construct your solution using spherical cows in a vacuum, there’s a very good chance that it won’t work on irregular cows at 1 bar.
@@TheSadowdragonGroupexactly. if the physicist says "only works on" they exhibit an understanding that it's only a model and this ruins the joke.
@@avinoamwcat @TheSadowdragonGroup Or in other words, science now needs a General Spherical Bovine Theory?
The first version I heard was the physicists who figured they could make a killing by being able to analyze horse races. For the first approximation "Assume a spherical homogeneous horse..."
Logicians only have one joke, but they can derive every other joke from it. (Also they proved it's funny, and it only it took 257 pages.)
3 logicians walk into a bar. the bartender asks "do you all want a beer?". the first says "i don't know". the second says "i don't know either". the 3rd says "yes"
@@0biwan7 I think that's a great Joke. But it's tough to apreciate, because it takes one or two minutes to figure out.
joining the consensus - 'its just 10 years away' is THE joke
My favorite physicist joke takes a bit to get going, but bear with me. It's worth it.
There's a construction worker who's feeling unfulfilled in his marriage, and he's begun to think about getting a mistress. He realizes this is kind of a big deal, so he decides to ask his friends about it.
First he asks a lawyer friend. The lawyer friend said "Do you have any idea the kind of legal trouble you'd be in if your wife tried to divorce you? The constant litigation, the legal fees, all the problems? Leave well enough alone, I say."
Then he asks an investor friend. The investor friend says "Well, there's always little perks to it in the short term, but I don't see it having the proper return on investment in the long term. Better to reinvest in what works."
Lastly, he asks a physics friend. The physics friend says "Oh yeah, getting a mistress is great. Highly recommend."
He says "Really?"
"Yeah," the physicist replies. "See, when you're not with your wife, she thinks you're with the mistress. When you're not with the mistress, she thinks you're with the wife. You can _finally_ spend some proper time in the lab."
Love it!!!!
Worth it!
Being a man, I can find this kind of funny. But do you realize that this joke is incredibly sexist?
@@BelgianSquirrel , so change it to e.g. a woman executive on taking a lover.
@@BelgianSquirrel nice 5:20 reference!
The problem with physics jokes is that you don’t know whether they’re funny until you observe them.
The “Schrödinger’s immigrant” bit made me chuckle 😂
Q: What is a tachyon?
A: A gluon that hasn't dried yet.
Or that joke, very tachy on the subject
Great one!
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Perfect dad joke!
I'm stealing this and nobody can stop me.
Have you thought of numbering your list from 0-4?
You know how to tell if you're talking to an extroverted engineer?
When he talks to you, he looks at YOUR shoes.
;)
Higgs boson tries to enter a church but is being stopped at the door.
“But without me, there’ll be no mass”, protests the boson.
When I've heard this before, the denial of entry is justified by "You claim to be the God particle, that's heresy".
Without this it doesn't make sense someone would be barred from a church.
@@davidgustavsson4000 It doesn't make much sense that a Boson is speaking. Jokes aren't funny anymore if you write them for accuracy over punchline.
@@reznovvazileski3193I think the point is that with the heresy line, the whole joke is funnier.
Cute. But only for Catholics I think.
One Hydrogen atom says to another "I lost an electron".
"Are you sure?" asks the second.
"Yes" replies the first, "I'm positive".
I agree that Schrodingers blank isn't a joke. But Heisenberg being uncertain made me laugh, though the same logic should apply...
It made me laugh too. I think because it had the set up of a joke though instead of just being a reference.
Me too wrt the Heisenberg being uncertain comment.
But is it blank?
@@ICanDoThatToo2 It's worse I think. It's not even blank. Schrodingers blank illustrates something being in two states, Heisenberg being uncertain literally just namedrops his principle.
i'm guessing that, like the original Schrodinger's joke, it's only funny the 1st time you hear it.
Luxury. Mathematicians only have 3 jokes, up to isomorphism
Took my car to a quantum mechanic. As soon as I look at the spedometer the GPS breaks.
Took my car to a classical mechanic. It works in my everyday use
(I stole those two, but it inspired my own:)
Took my car to a Lagrangian mechanic. Now it doesn't see a lot of action
An ordinary mechanic might suspect that you've blow a seal.
Pilots have them too.
“Takeoffs are optional, but landings are mandatory.”
“The propeller is just a fan to keep the pilot cool. Turn it off and watch him start to sweat.”
"Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't live long enough to make them all yourself."'
"Start your day with a positive attitude."
"What time was your landing?" "Which one?"
"Aircraft fly only because the full Navier Stokes equation is so ugly that the Earth tries to push the aerofoilaway"
"Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission"
@@samspeed6271 What is the one thing that keeps a helicopter in the air? The Jesus bolt, you say? No. It's money.
A very experienced former military pilot friend of mine who is rated in a ridiculous variety of aircraft,) offered to take me flying with him, but I'm a bit nervous even on commercial flights, (where the plane looks big enough to protect me.) My friend noticed my nervousness and said, "Don't worry. I haven't left anyone up there yet!"
Two most useless things are the fuel you did not tank and the runway behind you
In the end, none of them are as funny as the 11:33 cutaway.
Nice
That did make me LOL for real.
Nice
She's really really bad at telling jokes. But that did make me laugh 😆
Nice. I literally laughed out loud. She doesn't seem like she has a "normal" sense of humor, but then her inner-7th grader appears out of nowhere, as if conjured by the ghost/non-ghost of Schrodinger's Cat.
The way she poked that in about "controlled fusion is only 10 years away" was funnier than the standard ones 😢
There once was a fencer named Fisk
Whose wrist was exceedingly brisk
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald Contraction
Reduced his rapier to a disk.
An ambitous young woman named Bright
Could travel much faster than light
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
The newest joke on the list is 20 years old?
Physics hasn't accomplished anything in decades!!
I was going to say "Supercollider? But I just met her!", but then I realised that joke is now 20+ years old. =(
Say thanks to string theory for that
LASERS!?!?
She should make a video about it.
Yes, but the next big thing is just ten years away.
Upon meeting after some time apart:
Physicist A: "What's new?"
Physicist B: "c over lambda"
omega over 2 pi
A: what’s new?
B: defines Nu
Fixed that for you
This makes me irrationally angry
I don't use nu, I use f.
get real..
I did laugh when you said he was uncertain. Now that is funny.
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Patron walks into a library.
Patron: "Do you have a book about Pavlov's Dog and Schrödinger's Cat"?
Librarian: "It rings a bell, but I don't know whether it is checked out."
Best joke yet ;D
*it's
@@peanutnutter1 Contractions are not a universal requirement, they're just a feature of informal writing and colloquial speech. Also using the full words removes ambiguity.
@@DavidSmith-vr1nb the ambiguity would fix the joke.
Trading on the equivocation of it IS checked out and it HAS checked out.@@peanutnutter1
Two atoms walk into a bar, and one says "I think I lost an electron" the other atom says "are you sure?"
"I'm positive"
Reminds me of the time when a haughty lady approached George Bernard Shaw, and asked him, "are you Shaw?" Shaw replied, "Madam, I'm positive"
Yes, I'm building a model to predict the winner in a horse race.
I'll start with the assumption that all the horses are identical and spherical.
The best part of all this was when the physicist is telling about the spherical cow, he picks up a piece of chalk and goes to the whiteboard. LOL!
I noticed that, too...
3 PhD candidates were doing their final defenses; a biologist, an engineer, and a physicist. The challenge from their advisory committee: Characterize a running horse. The biologist gets up and for 4 days explains ADP, ATP, the Krebs cycle, how muscles work, the nervous system, etc. She sits down exhausted. The engineer takes to the board and for 2 days talks about levers, actuators, stresses, forces, etc. Then he too collapses back into his seat. Finally, the physics student takes to the board, draws a large circle and says, "Imagine all horses are wheels."
Imagine a double decker bus.
Not calculate its energy.
Ah, now I leaned that joke as biologists, bookmakers and physicists, and the punch line was "we've solved the spherical horse in free space"
In a reversal of the "Schrodingers X" joke, in software development, bugs that dissapear when trying to measure them (usually timing-related) are called "Heisenbugs"
I’m stealing that one… sadly been running into a lot of those.
how did i only learn this now
this should be in every multithreading 101 course
also, the *only* acceptable use for the blink tag in html: "schrodinger's cat is not dead"
Software developer here. Other than the Heisenbug, canonical bug descriptions include the Mandelbug - gets more complex the more you look into it; and the Bohr bug, repeatable/predictable.
Also ones that disappear once you turn debugging on.
To me “Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.” is the punchline of the statistical mechanics joke.
But it should have ended the first paragraph and not been the start of the second.
@@hainsey6264Indeed
The punch line is "Now it's our turn to study statistical mechanics." The following clause is completely superfluous and weakens it.
@@ReductioAdAbsurdum I see your point. But if I were writing this as a joke, I would substitute "Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously." for "Now it's our turn to study statistical mechanics." It appeals more to my sense of humor that way.
@@frankbowden686 That makes it not even a joke.
I thought the captioned picture of schodinger's cat was funnier than the article.
This was a fun vid!
My fav niche joke for mathematicians is "What do you call someone who reads a category theory paper? A co-author".
A co-mathematician is a device for converting co-theorems into ffee
I first read this as meaning that nobody apart from the authors reads a catgegory theory paper. Accurate.
@@davcrav The double meaning is what makes the joke so good. It is not necessarily an insult to category theory - another joke is "How can you spot a conference on category theory from the proceedings? They only publish the abstracts."
I realise it is more math than physics, but one of my faves has always been:
Q: What does Benoit B Mandelbrot’s middle initial stand for?
A: Benoit B Mandelbrot! 😂
Infinite recursion FTW!
His full name is Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit ... Mandelbrot Mandelbrot Mandelbrot Mandelbrot Mandelbrot!
@@Evan490BC So fractal! 😂
That’s funny. I smiled. I know it doesn’t sound like a glowing recommendation, but I found it funny.
I'm not a mathematician and I get it, that's pretty funny
Descartes walks into a bar and the bartender asks: "Will you have a drink?" Descartes says "I think not" and disappears.
Controlled fusion is only ten years away...
Professor draws a line on the blackboard and says "imagine a conductor made of copper", then pauses and painstakingly erases the line. Drawinga new line, he says "please excuse me, imagine a conductor made of aluminum"
Had that actual guy for three classes in college.
Imagine a conductor on a train.
Now that‘s funny
Had an electronics professor fill 6 blackboard proving why a transistor worked a certain way. At the end, he paused, pointed at the result and stated "zat is wrong". Turned out he left out a negative at the beginning.
Sorry I am dense can someone explain the joke?
Professor: how did you find the lecture on absolute zero?
Student: it was OK.
confess, took a second reading
Or OR?
very witty but not very funny
For absolute temperature scales you just write 0. So it is not 0K.
It was 0K but not much work got done.
"it's just a reference" hey that's kept Family Guy going for decades!
In one of his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, Douglas Adams wrote of an advanced civilization in the fourth dimension who were so obnoxious that they would have been destroyed years ago by someone else, but for the difficulty of firing nuclear missiles at right angles to reality.
A friend who's in liquor production,
Has a still of astounding construction,
The alcohol boils,
Through old magnet coils,
He says that it's proof by induction.
(stolen - but too good not to steal)