Knowledge: physics

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Politically Correct Physics 
http://www.jefflindsay.com/PCPhysics.shtml

Revised physics course descriptions.

Sokal's Paper 
http://www.sablesys.com/sokal.html

A physicists attempt to prove his hypothesis that: a leading North American journal of cultural studies . . . would publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a)it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions

Physics and Science Fun 
http://www.physlink.com/Fun/Index.cfm

Fun with physics, science jokes, cartoons, anecdotes, and stories.

Einstein, Heisenberg, Tipler 
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/eht.html

A story of interviews between these men and God, intended to determine if they should enter Heaven.

Love and Tensor Algebra 
http://www.ee.duke.edu/~wrankin/misc/tensor.html

A poem by Stanislaw Lem

The Super G-String 
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/sgs.html

A parody of modern string theories written in the form of a research paper.

Super G-String Field Theory 
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/sgsft.html

A sequel to the original paper on g-string theory.

The Non Abelian Names of God 
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/nonabel.html

A scientific paper parody which includes "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings","The Stages of a Theory" and a dictionary of common phrases.

Profession Jokes - Physicists 
http://www.workjoke.com/projoke25.htm

A collection, including "you might be a physicist if".

The Physics Crackpot Index 
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

A fun site which outlines how you can tell if a new theory is really from a crackpot.

SatireWire - Scientist Splits Atom, Finds Toy Prize Inside 
http://www.satirewire.com/news/may02/prizes.shtml

A Princeton physicist recently split an atom of hydrogen and found a toy prize inside, the journal Science reported in its June issue. [Contains fictitious information.]

Evil Squirrels and Physicists 
http://photoemission.tripod.com/evilsquirrel/

Squirrels are known to hate mankind. First they got the midgets, now they eat the physicists.

Doug Craigen's Huge Physics Humor Collection 
http://www.dctech.com/physics/humor/

May be the most linked-to physics humor site on the web because of its very large link collection.

Physics Song Book 
http://www.dctech.com/physics/humor/songs.php

New physics lyrics to classic tunes.

Buttered Cat 
http://www.flippyscatpage.com/butteredcat.html

Stick a buttered piece of bread on the back of a cat, then throw the cat out a window. The result may surprise you.

BBspot - Half-Life 2 Physics Engine Contains Grand Unified Theory 
http://bbspot.com/News/2003/12/valve_unified_theory.html

Physicists at Cornel-Putnam University (CPU) confirmed yesterday the Holy Grail of Physics, the Grand Unified Theory, is contained in the Half-Life 2 source code.

BBspot - Overclocker Creates Rift in Space-Time Continuum 
http://bbspot.com/News/2000/5/clock_rift.html

A rift in the space-time continuum was created when overclocker Jamie Aperman ran a 750 MHz Coppermine Pentium III at 1.6 GHz. It appears that the CPU was operating so fast that it began to execute instructions before they arrived.

UT-Chattanooga Collection of Physics Humor 
http://www.utc.edu/physics/physicshumor0.html

Wide variety of physics jokes and humorous essays.

Angels on a Pin 
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm

The possibly true story of the many possible ways of determining the height of a building using only a barometer.

Theological Thermodynamics 
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm

This document reproduces two classics of science parody/humor. The first applies the physics of thermodynamics to conclude that Heaven is hotter than Hell. The second is a response which combines Biblical evidence with thermodynamics to argue that, while heaven is devilishly hot, hell is hotter still.

QuarkDance.org! 
http://pdg.lbl.gov/quarkdance/

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Particle Data Group welcomes you to see its Quark Dance website which is a gateway to many exciting physics websites.

PhysicsSongs.org 
http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/

Songs, and links to sites with more of them.

First Atomic Clock Wristwatch 
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

A HP 5071A Cesium Beam Primary Frequency Reference can in fact be used as a wrist watch. You have a choice of stainless steel or adjustable nylon band.

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