Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for October 18, 2015
October 17, 2015
October 19, 2015
Transcript:
Teaching prank #1618033 start an analogy, then leave. Imagine simple harmonic motion as a board of angry badgers. The ears are radians, and- oop! My wife is calling me. Your T.A. will finish the lecture.
“Imagine, if you will, a world where are tenured professors are replaced by TAs that are assigned to the wrong lectures by a horde of angry badgers.We control the horizontal.”
I see. Then the angry badgers would represent the quantum foam, with the assignments being a fixed amount of energy available within the closed universe. You cannot destroy any assignment, because they just produce another to replace it, always maintaining the same number of assignments.But wouldn’t that imply an underlying structure in the quantum foam similar to that of the observable universe, but on a different scale entirely?
Simple harmonic motion is modeled by a horde of angry badgers, connected to a spring. What angle in radians do their ears subtend, when their kinetic energy is half their potential energy?
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 9 years ago
Wait until he finds the box full of angry badgers she had stashed beneath the desk as visual props.
Ida No about 9 years ago
“Imagine, if you will, a world where are tenured professors are replaced by TAs that are assigned to the wrong lectures by a horde of angry badgers.We control the horizontal.”
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 9 years ago
I see. Then the angry badgers would represent the quantum foam, with the assignments being a fixed amount of energy available within the closed universe. You cannot destroy any assignment, because they just produce another to replace it, always maintaining the same number of assignments.But wouldn’t that imply an underlying structure in the quantum foam similar to that of the observable universe, but on a different scale entirely?
seismic-2 Premium Member about 9 years ago
Simple harmonic motion is modeled by a horde of angry badgers, connected to a spring. What angle in radians do their ears subtend, when their kinetic energy is half their potential energy?