Perhaps one of the greatest things about physics today is the wealth of analogies that have popped up to try to explain complex ideas to the general masses. ITT Post the most far out analogies you've ever heard that (or come up with your own).
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Anonymous2006-12-26 16:47
probabalistic model of particle is like a fucking cat in a box
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Anonymous2006-12-26 20:06
Fine too?
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Anonymous2006-12-29 15:07
in quantum physics, a cat is simultaneously fine and not fine, as long as it remains unmeasured.
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Anonymous2006-12-29 15:49
On WKRP, Venus Flytrap explained the structure of the atom as being made of gangs of street hoodlums
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Anonymous2006-12-29 16:25
It is no dishonour to die in battle. It is the way of the warrior.
And kids, that's why the tele-porters on Star Trek could never work
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Anonymous2006-12-31 11:54
every possibility is possibel so everything excists at the same time and we all just chose one, that is for normal ppl wo don't try to grasp a new reality or create one
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Anonymous2006-12-31 17:50
"Say you see a woman at a pub. She looks okay, so you're attracted towards her. But once you get close, you notice she hasn't bathed for 3 years.
This is what I mean by attractive forces acting over a larger distance than repulsive ones. It explains why molecules are allowed to form."
^ Give or take, that's how our physical chemistry lecturer explained it in DCU.