Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Physics. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Debatable

A slight variation on a common quote from a someone on XKCD forums.

Biologists think they are Biochemists
Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists
Physical Chemists think they are Physicists
Physicists think they are God...



and God? He thinks he's a Mathematician.

Monday, 8 September 2008

LHC 2

I have heard that some people believe that when the LHC is first used it will create miniature black holes that will devour the earth. Now I have thought about this, from a physics point of view, for a good 1o minutes and have decided that it is not going to happen and they are being daft.

I have also decided that from a quantum mechanical point of view there is no reason that the scenario set out in the 'Lynx 3' advert could not happen in reality - two colliding wave functions constructively interfering - and that 'Lynx 3' some how magically increases the probability of such an event occurring, and so I shall continue to buy it just in case.

Sunday, 7 September 2008

LHC