Ask a physicist anything. (3)

[catzrfluffy]

This image sort of only moves when you're not directly watching...

Arghh sucked into the vortex!​

 

[Nabobalis]

This image sort of only moves when you're not directly watching...



Arghh sucked into the vortex!​

I knew drinking on election night was a bad idea.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Or both --

Hah, things can't just be simple with you, can they?

 

[AV1611VET]

Hah, things can't just be simple with you, can they?

I kinda felt bad after I said that -- kinda like I was stealing your thunder.

 

[Nooj]

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The gray panel in this image moves to the back or front as you look at it. Awesome.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

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The gray panel in this image moves to the back or front as you look at it. Awesome.

Really? I just see an irregular hexagon arbitrarily segmented and shaded. Tsk, always thinking in two dimensions...

 

[Hespera]

 

[Chesterton]

Thanks, newbie. Gee I really hope you stick around.

 

[pgp_protector]

Thanks, newbie. Gee I really hope you stick around.

I had that site on my blocked list, I'm not sure i want to know how bad it was.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I had just put my monocle back in after b&wpac4's revelation that he enjoys bacon... sigh...

 

[AV1611VET]

Why is something referred to as a 'pair of scissors'? or a 'pair of pants'?

 

[catzrfluffy]

Get some posh ones

French gilded scissors-glasses in the Empire style, c.1805

 

[pgp_protector]

Problem with Time Travel

 

[Chesterton]

Problem with Time Travel

Yeah, you've gotta account for the space in "spacetime". It seems like given all the factors, including the earth's wobble, if you could time travel it'd be virtually impossible to calculate precisely enough to arrive on the surface of the earth. Even if you calculated precisely enough to approximately hit earth where it happened to be, you'd most likely be killed because you'd materialize either in an ocean, or underground, or at some altitude you'd fall from.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Why is something referred to as a 'pair of scissors'? or a 'pair of pants'?

Because they generally come in pairs: two blades on a pair of scissors, two trouser legs on a pair of *cough* pants. I honestly don't know, so I can only offer you these explanations. Basically, they are (or were) two individual items put together, and the vernacular stuck.

 

[catzrfluffy]

What's the least amusing joke in Shakespeare?

 

[Naraoia]

Really? I just see an irregular hexagon arbitrarily segmented and shaded. Tsk, always thinking in two dimensions...

A physicist thinking in only two dimensions? What kind of physicist are you?

Why is something referred to as a 'pair of scissors'? or a 'pair of pants'?

So it doesn't make sense to the native speakers either The best explanation my English teachers could give is that they are made of two parts. Which fails miserably as an explanation when YOUR language has no trouble referring to all of these objects in singular

(If a pair of trousers is a pair of trousers, what is one trouser, anyway? I thought those were called the legs of the trousers... or pants, or whatever your local dialect wishes to call them...)

 

[AV1611VET]

The best explanation my English teachers could give is that they are made of two parts.

Irreducible complexity?

 

[Chesterton]

Irreducible complexity?

 

[Naraoia]

Irreducible complexity?

I guess. What use is half a pair of pants?