My Prof Brian Cox crush booms ...

[blamebrampton]

Just watched his interview on Enough Rope: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/ Not sure if you'll be able to get all the video from the site, but the transcript should be there, and he is HILARIOUS. Particle jokes! George Harrison anecdotes!

If J and I ever break up, I'm applying for writer in residence at CERN.

And I know that someone out there will get my favourite joke:

Heisenberg is driving down a long, straight highway. It's a beautiful road, flat and smooth, and he's in a rental car, and he just can't help
putting his foot down a little on the accelerator. He's having fun, bugger the consequences.

And sure enough, after a few minutes, he hears a siren and sees flashing lights in his rear vision mirror. Cursing his bad luck, he pulls over and waits for the policeman to come to his window.

A big, burly figure appears and looks though the open window at him, shaking his head slowly. "Well, well, well," the policeman says. "Do you have any idea how fast you were going?"

"No," says Heisenberg, "but I know exactly where I am!"

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I love that one.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

YAY! It makes me laugh EVERY time!

[azurelunatic]

I can't remember whether I learned about him via Star Trek and the "Heisenberg compensators" on the transporters, or via Feynman's autobiographies.

[aldehyde.livejournal.com]

hehehe i love it. yay nerdiness!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

In my fantasies, I'm a scientist ;-)

[aldehyde.livejournal.com]

eheh in my fantasies, i am an astronaut! :D

physics is really sexy. i love reading about different theories; i just wish i could grasp the mathematic side of things a bit better.

[madchemist36.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think i may love you now! That joke is fantastic! Huzzah for my chemistry background! Know any good Schrodinger cat jokes?

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

I had an opposing counsel named Heisenberg on a case once, and of course we joked about his uncertainty.

[absynthedrinker.livejournal.com]

LOL! Thanks for the morning giggle.

Peace,
Bubba

[fourth_rose]

*giggles*

Yay, got it! I knew that reading "A Brief History of Time" was good for something ;)

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

oh lord. :D

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

Yay for pop science jokes! It's a lucky thing for easily-memorised laws of physics that he ran into a patrol car rather than a fixed camera...

My favourite maths pun:

_-∞∫^-∞(1/Cabin).dCabin
= log_eCabin + C
= a houseboat!

</sad geek> :)

[drgaellon]

I don't get that one... Oh, "log cabin" + "sea" (C)???

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

That's the one :)

The C stands in for 'any constant' in the answer... I think: it's been an awfully log time since I knew how to do integrals properly!

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I get that joke. Geek jokes are the best

[shoeboxer4life.livejournal.com]

Uncertainty Principle! I was a middle school and high school science teacher before having the babes and would hunt the internet for geek science jokes. So fun.

[carnadosa.livejournal.com]

Ha!

No one in my family would get that though. :( I have no one to inflict in on!

[book-rapport.livejournal.com]

I don't get it :(

Can someone explain it for me, pretty please? :)

[drgaellon]

Giant mutant krill FTW!

And I got that joke! :)

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

My chemistry classes have proved useful for something other than passing the exam! =) What a wondrous day.

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

*G*

Oh man, it was so long ago!