Philosophy
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In the beginning there was Aristotle,
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
And objects in motion tended to come to rest,
And soon everything was at rest, and God saw that it was boring.
Then God created Newton,
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
But objects in motion tended to remain in motion,
And energy was conserved and momentum was conserved and matter was conserved,
And God saw that it was conservative.
Then God created Einstein,
And everything was relative,
And fast things became short,
And straight things became curved,
And the universe was filled with inertial frames,
And God saw that it was relatively general, but some of it was especially relative.
Then God created Bohr,
And there was the principle,
And the principle was quantum,
And all things were quantified,
But some things were still relative, and God saw that it was confusing.
Then God was going to create Furgeson,
And Furgeson would have unified,
And he would have fielded a theory,
And all would have been one,
But it was the seventh day,
And God rested, and objects at rest still tended to remain at rest.

Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Did you write this?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,630 posts)It's been around for at least the last few centuries since I went to college and saw it.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)or at least I don't recall seeing it. I hate this getting old shit!
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,630 posts)And God said:
And there was light.
But I was a Physics major.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)A physics major... I always wished I had worked harder in math in high school and followed a different path through college.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,630 posts)The best thing about Physics was courses in my major never closed out. No one wanted them.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,630 posts)
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,607 posts)(And funny)
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,630 posts)...that is best shared with those who will enjoy it.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)When you get your undergraduate degree you think you know everything.
When you get your masters you find out you know nothing.
When you get your doctorate, you find out nobody else knows anything either.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,630 posts)There once was a fellow named Fisk,
Whose fencing was exceedingly brisk.
So fast was his action,
The Fitzgerald contraction
Reduced his rapier to a disk.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)I had to look it up and the Wiki explanation still bounced off my forehead.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,630 posts)...than a sense of humor