[2549] in Humor
HUMOR: Physicists at a party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Fri Nov 13 11:39:52 1998
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:33:46 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
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From: terry@cs.cmu.edu
One day, a group of physicists was invited to a party.
When Archimedes heard about it, he was so buoyant that he jumped out of his
bathtub and announced the news to everyone. Coulomb had to charge him with
indecent exposure. Newton initially did not move, but once he forced
himself to go, everyone else seemed to also gravitate towards him.
At the party, it was found that Watt was the most powerful speaker. Young,
on the other hand, tried to be coherent but interfered with everyone
else. Ampere talked mostly about current events which Ohm tried to
resist. Lenz tended to oppose anyone who tried to change his ideas. Tesla
had a magnetic personality but not as wide an area of influence as
Weber. It was heard that when Faraday and Weber got together, they can sure
generate a lot.
Meanwhile, Becquerel was beaming with activity. Hooke also had fun because
it was an extension of his natural self. Pascal didn't enjoy much because
he was under a lot of pressure. Bernoulli was less pressurised -- his
secret was to move quickly. Shy de Broglie just stood at one corner and
waved to everyone. Rutherford formed a close nucleus with his associates,
he doesn't like scattering. Avogadro was counting the time: six on Oct the
23rd, he said.
At the food table, Thomson was seen to enjoy only plum pudding. Planck
tried to grab food in quanta, but Bohr would only allow him to take certain
levels. Careless Milikan dropped his Italian oil dressing.
Hertz went to the buffet table every second, while Farad (short for
Faraday) preferred to store things up. Hall probed into everything on the
buffet table but Celsius just went for the ice and the steam. As for
Kelvin, he had absolutely zero intake. Boyle and Charles gave a lot of gas
after eating and claimed that it was only ideal.
Einstein protested that everything is relative.
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