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Journal by turgid

You must remember the old joke about the electron who was stopped for speeding. The policeman said to him, "Sir, do you know how fast you were driving?"

"No," replies the electron.

"You were driving at precisely 100 miles per hour, sir."

Despondently the electron retorts, "Great, now I'm lost."

I was explaining that joke to Turgid jr. recently. When he was much younger, he just thought it was funny because an electron driving a car would be funny.

I said to him that he should ask his Religious Education teacher whether God knows the positions and momenta of all particles in the universe. His RE teacher is also his science teacher.

This should be interesting.

 

Reply to: Proposition 69!

    (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday December 20 2021, @03:07PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 20 2021, @03:07PM (#1206641)

    Proposition sixty nine factorial is to eliminate discrimination against the few anti electrons that go the other way and have a positive charge (positrons). Or maybe they are electrons going backward in time, but who could actually know for sure? The Religious Education / Science teacher could ask God to stop the simulation and check, and then email us the answer.

    Just be careful not to commit "scientific heresy" (which I first heard about in the 1968 movie Planet Of The Apes).

    The policeman could stop a fellow trans sistor for speeding. Then after catching an odor from the vehicle inform the driver: "excuse me, I may be biased, but I think you are a bit saturated. You should conduct yourself in this way. I would even say you are hard saturated.".

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