Geek Jokes

[K12beano]

[67Dino]

ADEuk said:

This is even cleverer than it looks as it’s a great everyday example of quantum mechanics.

A half-reflecting surface like that window reflects 50% of the light hitting it. You’d think that means individual photons bounce off or go through with a 50:50 probability. But they don’t. They each do both, as you find in an experiment when you recombine them with another half-mirror.

It’s extremely weird, and I think of it every time I see a half-reflecting window like this...

http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2004.web.dir/A...

[MartG]

[Halmyre]

67Dino said:

ADEuk said:

This is even cleverer than it looks as it’s a great everyday example of quantum mechanics.

A half-reflecting surface like that window reflects 50% of the light hitting it. You’d think that means individual photons bounce off or go through with a 50:50 probability. But they don’t. They each do both, as you find in an experiment when you recombine them with another half-mirror.

It’s extremely weird, and I think of it every time I see a half-reflecting window like this...

http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2004.web.dir/A...

The one that gets me is the three polariser paradox:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61918/...

[geeks]

MartG said:

[jingars]

MartG said:

I'd give real money if she'd shut up.

[21st Century Man]

MartG said:

Romulan Warbird surely?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

21st Century Man said:

Romulan Warbird surely?

The Klingon Bird of Prey, as featured in the film Star Trek 4, also had a cloaking device.

[21st Century Man]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

21st Century Man said:

Romulan Warbird surely?

The Klingon Bird of Prey, as featured in the film Star Trek 4, also had a cloaking device.

As did the Enterprise, the one they took from the Pegasus, and in other episodes too, a few of those alternate timeline ones.

[sospan]

What is impressive is the way that t-shirt has morphed into a cloak

[vulture1]

21st Century Man said:

MartG said:

Romulan Warbird surely?

Nah they arn't as fast

[67Dino]

Halmyre said:

67Dino said:

ADEuk said:

This is even cleverer than it looks as it’s a great everyday example of quantum mechanics.

A half-reflecting surface like that window reflects 50% of the light hitting it. You’d think that means individual photons bounce off or go through with a 50:50 probability. But they don’t. They each do both, as you find in an experiment when you recombine them with another half-mirror.

It’s extremely weird, and I think of it every time I see a half-reflecting window like this...

http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2004.web.dir/A...

The one that gets me is the three polariser paradox:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61918/...

I think that experiment is very strange, but some people wouldn’t think it strange at all. It very much polarises opinion.

[tone]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

(Only seriously Old Skool PHers will grock this response)

You b*gger, that's cost me an awful lot of time I'll never get back - I'd almost forgotten about Weebl and Bob and had to spend hours catching up!

[SCEtoAUX]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

21st Century Man said:

Romulan Warbird surely?

The Klingon Bird of Prey, as featured in the film Star Trek 4, also had a cloaking device.

I thought they all had cloaking devices, but the one in Bird of Prey in Star Trek 6 (The Shakespeare one) could fire when cloaked. Hence it could hide under the Enterprise and shoot at the Klingon ambassador's ship.

[ajprice]

[MartG]

[MartG]

[Soloman Dodd]

Sorry if this has been posted before

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Soloman Dodd said:

Sorry if this has been posted before

He accidentally accessed the output port and got a bugger underrun error.

[havoc]

MartG said: