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What's your favourite technical/scientific joke? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 66 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

Heisenberg and Schrodinger are in a car. They get pulled over.

Heisenberg is driving, and the cop asks him, “Do you know how fast you were going?”

“No, but I know exactly where I am,” Heisenberg replies.

The cop says, “You were going 140 km/h, were only 120 is allowed”

Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts, “Great! Now I’m lost!”

The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says, “Do you know you have a dead cat back here?”

“We do now, you bastard!” shouts Schrodinger.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    I heard another one with Heisenberg where he ran a red light and got pulled over by a cop, and tried to defend himself by saying that the speed at which he was driving, red traffic lights appear to be green because of Doppler effect (or Raleigh Scattering, I don't recall) - and the cop smirks, "that would be some serious speed, huh?"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    I had to look up the joke.

    The Heisenberg principle says you can't know both a particles position and momentum (speed).

    So when the cop told him his speed, he lost his position.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago* (1 child)

    I heard that one as Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and Ohm, and continuing from your joke, the police officer arrests all of them. Ohm resists.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    I've read that one too, I found it a bit thin, as both the Heisenberg and Schrodinger bits of the joke require s bit of knowledge of the theory, whereas Ohm is only known for the theory of resistance. Now if fort instance the flow of traffic was impeded, Ohm his resistance would relate to his theory.

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