I like not having a degree because I'm never going to have any measure of authority that would be undermined by my shitposts, the only authority I undermine is everybody else's
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That makes sense! Although, conversely, I find it funny when people say me shitposting or swearing or not-dressing-nicely undermines the authority of my physics doctorate, because. Have you met physicists.
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @Nymphomachy
We shitpost *our own discipline*. We named the unit of cross-sectional area for atomic-level nucleii a "barn." It's not someone's name. It's because they thought it would be funny and stupid to define one of the smallest targets in existence "one barn" in size---
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @Nymphomachy
It is literally because of the "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn" saying.
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics @Nymphomachy
Which led to the joke unit of measurement, the "barn-hubble", which is the total volume of a cylinder with a diameter of one barn and a length of the Hubble length (the distance between the Earth and the farthest observable galaxies, i.e. "the length of the observable universe")
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It's about one liter
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They talked about selling bottles of water one barn-hubble in size at conferences It's funny because mathematically it's the same volume but, of course, a container the *shape* of a barn-hubble could contain no water at all
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