Modern physics can hardly be imagined without a system of arithmetic in which simple calculation is easy enough to make large calulations even possible. The positional number system and the concept of zero were first developed in India and were adopted by the Islamic empire.
In 1934, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi had discovered strange results when bombarding uranium with neutrons, which he believed at first to have created transuranic elements. In 1939, it was discovered by the chemist Otto Hahn and the physicist Lise Meitner that what was actually happening was the process of nuclear fission, whereby the nucleus of uranium was actually being split into two pieces, releasing a considerable amount of energy in the process. At this point it became clear to a number of scientists independently that this process could potentially be harnessed to produce massive amount of energy, either as a civilian power source or as a weapon.
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The world's largest particle accelerator -- a 17-mile-long ring in Geneva, Switzerland in which subatomic particles whirl about at velocities approaching the speed of light -- was mysteriously inoperable for five days. Investigators combed the $1 billion facility for clues and found two empty beer bottles in one of its vacuum chambers.
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Young Einstein (1988): directed and starring Yahoo Serious. Tagline: In 1905 he discovered relativity... In 1906 he invented rock and roll. Albert Einstein was really an Australian. An inventor his whole life, he constantly manufactures weird and wonderful inventions in his wooden shed in rural Tasmania.
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In the theories of special relativity and general relativity, time and three-dimensional space are treated together as a single four-dimensional object called a spacetime. Spacetimes are the arenas in which all physical events take place. For example, the motion of planets around the Sun may be described in a particular type of spacetime, or the motion of light around a rotating star may be described in another type of spacetime. A point in spacetime is usually referred to as an event. An example of an event may be the explosion of a star, for example. The worldline of a particle or light beam is the path that this particle or beam takes in the spacetime, this path being a geodesic. In classical physics, geodesics are timelike or null (lightlike).
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The General Theory of Relativity is an anagram of Holy threatener of elite Gravity
Theoretical physics is an anagram of critical hypotheses and hypothetical crises
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The following are all physics-related puns (an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word):
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Q: What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?
A: "You may have graduated but I've got many degrees"
Q: What did one photon say to the other photon?
A: I'm sick and tired of your interference.
Q. What did one electron say to the other electron?
A. Don't get excited. You'll only get into a state!
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. (J. Robert Oppenheimer)
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. (Max Born)
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. (H. L. Mencken)
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. (Eugene Wigner)
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. (J. Robert Oppenheimer)
We must be physicists in order. . . to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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