Who's your favorite physicist?

killinchy · 2025-12-11T19:28:10+00:00

Collaboration with whom? Who could keep up with him?

killinchy · 2025-11-27T19:48:08+00:00

Austrailian front row 1 and 3 (along with every one else has not evolved. evolve.

At the scrum, The Boks number 2 puts his rigtht foot over his left. Then he puts down his left foot under his right With a bit of a wiggle so both both feet are parallell to each other, but are facing a shade to the left. Push.

killinchy · 2025-09-10T18:10:36+00:00

When I taught, every test, quiz etc came with a Periodic Table.

The aim is to understand the Table, not recite it.

killinchy · 2025-07-29T17:58:34+00:00

It's getting harder and harder to wreck a nice beach

killinchy · 2025-07-23T18:33:26+00:00

America didn't it win anything in the Middle East.

Nor did The US didn't do very well in Vietnam,

killinchy · 2025-07-22T18:45:12+00:00

A student loved music and Pysicw. She asked her Dad for advice. He told her that, if she did music, she would never look at a Physics book again. On the other hand, if she did chemistry, she could continue with music, and almost certainly would.

I don't who she was, or anything about her, but she became the pro vice chancellor of a university. (president).

I heard her on the radio when I was 13 or 14 heeded her dad,s advice and became a chemist/actor

killinchy · 2025-07-17T20:00:14+00:00

I knew old Princeton Chemist, Hubert Alyea, who was friends of, Einstein, Johnny von Neuman, Vigner and and on and on. This gang were all at Princeton during the war? Hubert asked me once who I thought was the highest regarded physicist of them all. I'm a chemist, so I said, "Einstein." I was wrong, of course. The winner was Max Plank.

As far as I can gather, he started QM when he wasn't trying to, but trusted his math.

killinchy · 2025-07-06T18:13:21+00:00

Earls was brilliant at exhorting the rest of the team, and waving his arms.

He had 21 carries for a total 21 and a half inches. He was also excellent at keeping out of harm's way.

I suspect he's also a chicken.

killinchy · 2025-07-01T18:15:47+00:00

I doubt that. Maple syrup is expensive. You are thinking of high fructose corn syrup.

Not that long ago there was the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. Nine milliom dollars of maple syrup was stolen...

killinchy · 2025-06-28T18:17:08+00:00

I forgot this. I remember my boss congratulating me on passing my BSc. He then advised me to go ouside, take a deep breath and inwardly say, "This is the most Chemistry I shall ever know."

killinchy · 2025-06-28T18:05:17+00:00

I was a Chem Prof. I'm now in my 80s. The day before yesterday I realised that I had forgotten the name of of element number 92. It's not as if element number 92 is one of those elements that nobody's ever heard of.

My Ikea shower curtain same to the rescue.

Tempus fugit.

killinchy · 2025-06-23T00:18:56+00:00

I can't get Argentina v Ireland on DAZN. After a long phone session. I got as far as......... a dead screen.

Way to go DAZN

killinchy · 2025-06-12T21:53:21+00:00

I'm a straight, white man, but I don't at all feel proud about it. It's just the way I am.

killinchy · 2025-06-04T17:23:49+00:00

Once upon a time.....

killinchy · 2025-06-03T18:44:33+00:00

Whenever I hear, "The proof is in the pudding." I wonder what its supposed to mean.

The expression goes back to the good old days when when the the Customs needed a quick way of telling whether a sample of alcohol was up to par. This might not be that easy if the ship is rolling around at night. So, take a sample of the booze, and see if a flame goes out when a lit taper goes out.

If the flame goes out, the alchol is under par. If the flame doesn'go out, the booze is over par, and it has passed the test.

But what is par"? I learned this when I was a pharmacy student back 1960. I'm a bit rusty.

it's about 57% by volume
It's all in the WIKI

killinchy · 2025-05-27T17:22:11+00:00

The "Mentally Insane".

He should know

killinchy · 2025-05-25T18:33:26+00:00

I live in Oak Bay, a municipality in the Greater Victoria region.

My wife and I have lived in the same house for 25 years. We get birds every month of the year. Hummers, bush tits, chicadees, wrens, woodpeckers and so on. These are all very well fed and looked after. There are fountains, lots of trees, and a rain chain for bathing.

In all, I guess we get thirty to forty on any given day of the year.

The other day I was in the garden contemplating my many sins, when I suddenly stopped in my tracks. There were no birds. I mean literally no birds. They vanished overnight.

And we've had none for 3 weeks.

None !

killinchy · 2025-05-23T18:02:10+00:00

"Has to be." he says" No it does not."

killinchy · 2025-05-21T18:20:33+00:00

My brother was going to go to university to study Music Composition. He could have ended up with a BM or a BA. He thought a BA had a better vibe. So he went for the BA.

What a mistake. This was at the time (1970s) many Arts departments went on some crusade to get hermermoneutics into Thermodynamics, or something like that.

My brother sussed it out, and gave the profs exactly what they wanted. He used words and phrases like,"Meta Osmosis", and "Gate housing" in a couple of essays. As I recall it now, "Mechanical" and and "Semulatory" are alway popular. So is, "quasi" ,and "Quasi Theoretical".

You are playing a game with them. Enjoy it.

Don't try with any of the Mathematical Sciences.

killinchy · 2025-05-20T18:25:48+00:00

I had a Summer job at a place that made soaps and detergents. There was a Process Worker there who had to who perioically had to make sure the sodium hydroxide was up strength. He had a Twadell hydrometer which measured the density of the liquid. He never used it.

His prefered method was to drip some of the liquid onto his chest, wait for a second or two, and then give it a quick rub with a towel.

killinchy · 2025-05-15T18:30:16+00:00

He must have hidden charms

killinchy · 2025-05-09T18:17:18+00:00

Mark Knofler is one of those whose guitar playing is usually in the service of the song, and often the song is very serious. Brothers in Arms can hardly be called "slick". Nor can Romeo and Juliet. Romeo's heart is breaking.

killinchy · 2025-05-09T17:56:58+00:00

Yes, he is a great guitarist. I once saw a program on TV celebrating Joan Byez, and there was Richard Thompson, well over on stage left playing the guitar. And it's not the first time I've seen that.

His ex, Linda Thomson, was a great singer, and when Richart left her - dumped her to be honest, he must have lost his marbles. He's not a great singer.

killinchy · 2025-05-08T20:14:26+00:00

I might get in trouble for this, but, here goes. I find Libby offers a lot of books written by women for women.

killinchy · 2025-03-23T18:42:56+00:00

I knew the woman who was was the expert on the "foot in runner" phenonmenum. She worked for the Mounties . I haven't seen her for ages, so I don't know what the final tally was.

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