Glenn Starkman, astronomer and physicist, Case Western Reserve UniversityĪn engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are marooned on a desert island. (By definition, multiplying a vector, which has both size and direction, and a scalar, which has size and direction, cannot produce a cross product.)” It’s about the expectation - the tsetse fly is the insect vector for ‘sleeping sickness,’ while the climber is a ‘scaler’ (homonym of ‘scalar’) of mountains.

“This one adds biology and a bad homonym. What do you get when you cross a tsetse fly with a mountain climber? Nothing. “The termite wants to eat the bar and wonders if the wood is tender.” Bill Roberts, engineer, Battelle The joke is making fun by reversing the usual ordering of cause and effect.” Susan Fisher, entomologist, Ohio State UniversityĪ termite walks into a bar and says: “Is the bar tender here?” According to (Albert) Einstein’s theory of relativity, this would upset the relationship of cause and effect. “In the past year, physicists using the CERN accelerator thought they had measured that neutrinos were moving faster than light-speed. We don’t serve particles here! A neutrino walks into a bar. The second chemist also wanted plain water and thought that he asked for this.But evidently the bartender knew a lot of chemistry and when he heard the phrase ‘H2O, too,’ he interpreted this as ‘H2O2,’ which is not water, but rather hydrogen peroxide, (which) unlike water, is poisonous.” Kenneth Hicks, astronomer and physicist, Ohio University “The first chemist drank plain water.This caused no problem. Then the second one says to the bartender: “I think I'll have an H2O, too.” The bartender gives him some of that he drinks it and dies. The first one says to the bartender: “I think I'll have an H2O.” The bartender gives him some of that, he drinks it and smiles. Since the policeman told Schrodinger what state it was in, the other quantum state disappeared.” Barry Friedman, chemist, Ohio State University The experiment states that as long you don’t open the box, you don’t know whether the cat is dead or not, so the cat is in two quantum states, dead and alive. There’s exactly a 50 percent chance that this mechanism will go off. “The second part of the joke is about (Erwin) Schrodinger’s cat experiment, in which a cat is placed in a box with a mechanism in it to kill the cat.

Neutrino walks into a bar