Open Directory - Recreation: Humor: Science: Physics
See also: This category in other languages: - May be the most linked-to physics humor site on the web because of its very large link collection. - Fun with physics, science jokes, cartoons, anecdotes, and stories. - The possibly true story of the many possible ways of determining the height of a building using only a barometer. - A rift in the space-time continuum was created when overclocker Jamie Aperman ran a 750 MHz Coppermine Pentium III at 1.6 GHz. It appears that the CPU was operating so fast that it began to execute instructions before they arrived. - Stick a buttered piece of bread on the back of a cat, then throw the cat out a window. The result may surprise you. - A story of interviews between these men and God, intended to determine if they should enter Heaven. - Squirrels are known to hate mankind. First they got the midgets, now they eat the physicists. - A HP 5071A Cesium Beam Primary Frequency Reference can in fact be used as a wrist watch. You have a choice of stainless steel or adjustable nylon band. - A poem by Stanislaw Lem - Poems from the contests sponsored by the American Physical Society. - New physics lyrics to classic tunes. - Songs, and links to sites with more of them. - Revised physics course descriptions. - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Particle Data Group welcomes you to see its Quark Dance website which is a gateway to many exciting physics websites. - A Princeton physicist recently split an atom of hydrogen and found a toy prize inside, the journal Science reported in its June issue. [Contains fictitious information.] - "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". - A sequel to the original paper on g-string theory. - A scientific paper parody which includes "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings","The Stages of a Theory" and a dictionary of common phrases. - A fun site which outlines how you can tell if a new theory is really from a crackpot. - A parody of modern string theories written in the form of a research paper. - This document reproduces two classics of science parody/humor. The first applies the physics of thermodynamics to conclude that Heaven is hotter than Hell. The second is a response which combines Biblical evidence with thermodynamics to argue that, while heaven is devilishly hot, hell is hotter still. - Physicists at Cornel-Putnam University (CPU) confirmed yesterday the Holy Grail of Physics, the Grand Unified Theory, is contained in the Half-Life 2 source code. (December 01, 2003)
