Ever wonder what goes on in Odds n Ends....

**imported_Shanna** · 10-04-2007, 11:32 PM

in a physics forum? ;D http://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14

This is great reading.

I love the thread about the guy that thinks he has proof that solid matter is travelling faster than the speed of light. He's watched TLC and read a little about Einstein on the internet... (giggle)
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=188835

**imported_Shanna** · 10-04-2007, 11:36 PM

*HAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hypothetically if we were to say... Just a little joke amongst quantum physicists.

"A cat always lands on its feet, toast always lands peanut butter side down.

Would a cat with toast strapped to its back hover in a state of quantum indecision?"

**imported_Shanna** · 10-04-2007, 11:39 PM

BWAAAHAAAA AHAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA AHAAAAAAA...... One of the responses posted.

THE SECRET OF ANTIGRAVITY...

If you drop a buttered piece of bread, it will fall on the floor butter-side down. If a cat is dropped from a window or other high and towering place, it will land on its feet.

But what if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat land on its feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground?

Even if you are too lazy to do the experiment yourself you should be able to deduce the obvious result. The laws of butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground, and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics demand that the cat can not smash its furry back. If the combined construct were to land, nature would have no way to resolve this paradox. Therefore it simply does not fall.

That's right you clever mortal (well, as clever as a mortal can get), you have discovered the secret of antigravity! A buttered cat will, when released, quickly move to a height where the forces of cat-twisting and butter repulsion are in equilibrium. This equilibrium point can be modified by scraping off some of the butter, providing lift, or removing some of the cat's limbs, allowing descent.

Most of the civilized species of the Universe already use this principle to drive their ships while within a planetary system. The loud humming heard by most sighters of UFOs is, in fact, the purring of several hundred tabbies.

The one obvious danger is, of course, if the cats manage to eat the bread off their backs they will instantly plummet. Of course the cats will land on their feet, but this usually doesn't do them much good, since right after they make their graceful landing several tons of red-hot starship and pissed off aliens crash on top of them.

**AngusFangus** · 10-04-2007, 11:53 PM

Hoooo boy! I'm glad they cleared that up for me!

**Chester B. Dickens** · 10-05-2007, 08:36 AM

I'll bet they got no Chester Dickens. Or Fluffy Muff posts. And it's a lock that they don't laugh so hard as to get tears in their ass.

**imported_Shanna** · 10-05-2007, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by dweck

I'll bet they got no Chester Dickens. Or Fluffy Muff posts. And it's a lock that they don't laugh so hard as to get tears in their ass.

I bet you are right.

**Labs4life** · 10-05-2007, 10:03 AM

Shanna, I had E-mailed the Secret to Anti-gravity off to all my engineering geek buddies. It made many of them snort and drop their slide rules.

**imported_delmonico** · 10-05-2007, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by labs4life

Shanna, I had E-mailed the Secret to Anti-gravity off to all my engineering geek buddies. It made many of them snort and drop their slide rules.

So E-Mail them and ask them what the speed of dark is. Also ask them what happens if yer in a spaceship traveling three times the speen of ligh and then you turn on the headlights. ;D

**imported_CindersMyGirl** · 10-05-2007, 11:01 AM

HA! That's really funny!

**imported_Shanna** · 10-05-2007, 12:32 PM

Everytime I think I have a solution, I disprove it. From what I have figured, the actual time needed to accomplish this would take more than a prisoners life sentence.

Q: How can the prisoners tell, with certainty, that all 100 of them have visited the central living room with the light bulb.

The riddle: 100 prisoners are in solitary cells, unable to see, speak or communicate in any way from those solitary cells with each other. There's a central living room with one light bulb; the bulb is initially off. No prisoner can see the light bulb from his own cell. Everyday, the warden picks a prisoner at random, and that prisoner goes to the central living room. While there, the prisoner can toggle the bulb if he or she wishes. Also, the prisoner has the option of asserting the claim that all 100 prisoners have been to the living room. If this assertion is false (that is, some prisoners still haven't been to the living room), all 100 prisoners will be shot for their stupidity. However, if it is indeed true, all prisoners are set free. Thus, the assertion should only be made if the prisoner is 100% certain of its validity.

Before the random picking begins, the prisoners are allowed to get together to discuss a plan. So ---- what plan should they agree on, so that eventually, someone will make a correct assertion?