Illuminati-R-Us

by **Мастер** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:27 pm

Well, this came to my email inbox as part of the customized amazon.com sales pitch. Any good?

by **Dragon Star** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:26 pm

Looks right up your ally to me. :D

I probably wouldn't make it past page 2...

by **azazul** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:41 pm

I'm not sure. I hadn't heard of it, but the price is good so I added it to my wishlist for future consideration.

by **KLA2** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:05 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Well, this came to my email inbox as part of the customized amazon.com sales pitch. Any good?

Wow, KOS. Wish I could read that stuff. Kind of.

True story. When I was a teenager, I went to a "necking party" with a girl.

I attempted to impart to her my knowledge of Einsteins Theory of Relativity.

"Kiss me, you fool"

"Just as soon as I explain gravity wells ... " :?

Guess I was kinda shy. :oops:

Too soon old, too late smart. :roll:

by **Мастер** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:30 pm

Well, I ordered it ages ago. If it comes sometime before the end of the universe, I'll find out if I can read that sort of thing...

by **Dragon Star** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:37 pm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Well, I ordered it ages ago. If it comes sometime before the end of the universe, I'll find out if I can read that sort of thing...

They'll send it to your address the day after you die. :lol:

by **umop ap!sdn** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:58 am

KLA2 wrote:I attempted to impart to her my knowledge of Einsteins Theory of Relativity.

"Kiss me, you fool"

Sounds like she was hoping you'd switch to astronomy instead. OBAFGKM and all that. :P

by **MM_Dandy** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:49 pm

Isn't Einstein credited with saying something like, "I don't recognize Relativity now that the mathematicians have gotten a hold of it?"

by **Мастер** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:08 pm

MM_Dandy wrote:Isn't Einstein credited with saying something like, "I don't recognize Relativity now that the mathematicians have gotten a hold of it?"

I believe he made some disparaging comments about Minkowki's space-time formulation of special relativity, saying that the mathematicians had made relativity to complicated for the physicists to understand. But as my source said (going by memory here), the joke was on Einstein, because in 1912, he realized that Minkowski's formulation was the key to solving the problem of gravity.

I seem to recall another story about Minkowski, that during a seminar, he said, "This is obvious," then stared at it for a minute, went off to his office for 15 minutes, then came back and said, "Yes, this is obvious" :P

by **KLA2** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:06 pm

umop ap!sdn wrote:Sounds like she was hoping you'd switch to astronomy instead. OBAFGKM and all that. :P

{Sigh.} Can we get a dictionary of acronyms on this forum?

The last acronyms I understood were:

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/hair/initials.htm

:wink:

by **Superluminal** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:27 am

Oh be a fine girl kiss me.

It's how to remember the different classes of stars.

obafgkm

by **umop ap!sdn** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:47 am

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:I seem to recall another story about Minkowski, that during a seminar, he said, "This is obvious," then stared at it for a minute, went off to his office for 15 minutes, then came back and said, "Yes, this is obvious" :P