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Ivan Seeking
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Fake news. Do you have a video?sysprog said:Hey, when I started the thread, I said "Sometimes I see a line (or maybe a brief multiline) post...
Fake news. Do you have a video?sysprog said:Hey, when I started the thread, I said "Sometimes I see a line (or maybe a brief multiline) post...
Ah, yes,... thank you. I'd been wondering what was causing that pain between my legs.sysprog said:Isn't "In fact, maybe" rather fence-straddling?
I prefer the original. Come to think of it, there are plenty of posts here and elsewhere that are sorely inviting of an "oost". [Does anyone know whether an "oost" emoticon exists? And is/was there a corresponding internet meme?]Vanadium 50 said:Post.
Now fixed.
TIL how and when to use the "multiquote" button.Vanadium 50 said:There is a link to the original post, in the quote. Click the little arrow.
Here's the url for the first post in this thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/great-one-liners-from-pf-members.992032/Ivan Seeking said:Fake news. Do you have a video?
Mayhem said:Quantum chemistry: When lonely physicists decided that their psychotic ideas should be my problem.
Didn't @Greg Bernhardt recently establish a new award for 12,000? Could you be resting on your laurels prematurely?Vanadium 50 said:Hey, don't "like" my post. I have my 8000. Go "like" the original by @Nugatory!
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother - Einstein.sysprog said:For you, the problem is that you aren't looking at the math. You're looking at various people's attempts to describe what the math is saying in ordinary language. And there is no way to do that with 100% accuracy because our ordinary language simply doesn't have the words or the concepts required. ##-## @PeterDonis (I added underlining)
I don't understand the fuss. I've measured them before with a tachyometer.sysprog said:. . . you can't just say "tachyons" and have a fully consistent theory appear out of nowhere. ##-## @Vanadium 50
Last time I was at the hardware store, all the velocimeters they had were bradyometers ##-##Ivan Seeking said:I don't understand the fuss. I've measured them before with a tachyometer.
Check Amazonsysprog said:Last time I was at the hardware store, all the velocimeters they had were bradyometers ##-##
Vanadium 50 said:As they say "it is difficult to tell where one error ends and the next begins."
russ_watters said:Heck, there's even a version you tell your 6 year old when he asks you at bedtime to explain what a black hole is. And it doesn't start with, "Well, son, for a static, spherically symmetrical spacetime..."
Vanadium 50 said:Everything is better with explosive bolts.
PeroK said:The clocks and particles themselves are blissfully unaware of our choice of reference frame.
Vanadium 50 said:Timbo (was concerned that high energy particles found by the ANITA detector were a global threat)
'Am I the only one understanding this article?'
Vanadium 50
'I think you're the only one misunderstanding them.'
phinds said:Homeopathic treatment should be payed for with homeopathic cash ... that is, an envelope that used to have money in it but now doesn't.
Brilliant. I think that is in my top 5.berkeman said:When a newbie asked in the Feedback forum if they could post questions about homeopathy...
Wouldn't we all!Dullard said:If you can come up with a good way to persuade people who are simultaneously certain and wrong, I'd love to hear the details.
BvU said:(*) everyone wants to study only the essentials and everyone only wants to buy winning lottery tickets (especially management types ). The only way to find out what is core is to study the lot. And the only way to make certain you buy the winning ticket is to buy all tickets...
no one said:A hot air balloon can jettison ballast to gain height, but it's still only a hot air balloon