Scientific humor: mind games or advanced jokes

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Maybe not every simple layman understands them, but a huge number of jokes are spinning in scientific circles. Joking "experienced mind" for every reason and for no reason, sometimes dragging mathematics even in order to declare their love. Let's plunge into the world of scientific jokes and taste what this scientific humor, hitherto unknown to mere mortals, is.

An example of jokes in the natural sciences

It was the scientists who first began to substantiate the fact why a sandwich always falls butter side down, and a cat always lands on its paws. These facts did not fit into the theory of probability in any way, and therefore they were ranked as paradoxical phenomena and even got their names: “The law of a sandwich” and “The law of a falling cat”. In the future, they were completely united under the general name "Paradox of a cat with oil." That's the scientists' scientific humor. For some, these are jokes, but for scientific specialists, this is an accepted postulate, which is often found onpages of scientific papers.

Schrödinger's cat

The notorious "Schrödinger's Cat" deserves special attention. It was through a fictitious experiment with a cat enclosed in a chamber with a poisonous substance (in this case, radioactive) that Schrödinger proved the incompleteness of real quantum mechanics in terms of the transition from subatomic to macroscopic systems. In simple words, he characterized this as the uncertainty principle. That is, it is not known at what point the cat will remain alive or die. It is impossible to calculate this, and it is possible to ascertain the transition of a cat from one state to another only by observation. But until we look into the camera, it remains unknown whether the cat is actually alive or dead.

To an ordinary person, such an experiment will seem unnecessarily brutal. But in scientific circles they seized on it as another discovery, and immediately the whole world began to calculate the possibilities and develop the theory. In fact, it is still unknown whether Schrödinger's fictional cat is still alive or not, and this experiment in scientific circles has given rise to a separate branch of scientific humor: the strong mind jokes about a poor cat locked in a cell, dragging it in as best they can anywhere and anytime. For example, one of the simplest jokes looks like this: “Knock knock! Who's there? It's me, Schrödinger's cat. Let me finally eat…”.

Science and technology jokes

The most vicious joke was played by none other than Stephen Hawking himself. So hitherto it is not known whether this is his scientific and technical humor, or whether hesaid "in all seriousness". The saying referred to the creation of a full-fledged artificial intelligence, and literally looked like this: “The development of a full-fledged artificial intelligence could mean the end of the human race.”

Apparently, scientists did not heed the warning of the pillar of world science, and, having attributed the statement to the category of jokes, they continue to actively work on the creation of AI, meanwhile, enjoying watching the feature films "The Matrix" and "Terminator", where even writers heeded the scientist's warning.

Below is an anecdote about AI, which the scientists themselves came up with:

Scientists created a super-super-duper computer and asked him a question:

- Does God exist?

What the computer thought and said:

- Not enough data. Requires connection to other computers on the planet.

Scientists fulfilled his request on an accessible scale and repeated their question again. To which the computer again replied:

- Not enough data. Requires connection to all computers on the planet without exception.

Scientists quarreled among themselves for a long time, but nevertheless complied with this request. The same question is asked again. The computer again answered its “Not enough data” this time, demanding to connect it to all existing networks of the planet. The scientists again, having quarreled, fulfilled his request and again ask the question:

- Does God exist?

To which the computer replied:

- Now yes.”

The joke deserves special attention: “Artificial intelligence is gaining more and more popularity due tonatural extinction.”

Pleasant from such scientific humor is not enough, but what is - that is. It is in this anecdote that all the ins and outs about scientists are present, who, in the pursuit of knowledge, can, without stopping at nothing, simply lose their minds and, having crossed the permitted line, quite consciously endanger all of humanity.

Cooler jokes

Bringing to your attention a whole range of scientific jokes and aphorisms in order to imagine the strange beauty and sophistication of scientific humor:

• Perhaps there is nothing harder than parting with a loved one, except for the black hole NGC 300 X-1, which is 20 billion times heavier than the Sun.
• I want to say thank you to gravity. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here right now.
• I made your discriminant less than zero!
• "Tonight we're going to do things that shouldn't be done." "Divide by zero, or what?".
• Few people think that most mathematicians think that they throw out garbage in a parabola.
• What can you talk about with a woman if she can't calculate triple integrals?
• Mathematician Pavel Fedorovich in sexual fantasies always prefers to be a numerator.
• If after every fall you have the strength to get up, then you are most likely a sine wave!
• The amount of dirty dishes is a constant value, limited by the height of the faucet.
• Dear math! I'm already pretty tired of looking for your x. Let's face it, he's justdisappeared somewhere…

And here is the Vladimirsky Central, remade in a mathematical way:

Vladimir matan, variables, Fourier stage two extremes, heavy Gauss lies on the heart…”.

Here is an excerpt from a WhatsApp conversation between two mathematician friends:

- How did you break up and why?

- I accidentally read his correspondence with homies.

- So what?

- There he denies gravitational time dilation, and in general all experimental proofs of general relativity. Can you imagine? He's stuck in Newton's manger!

- Tin, what a fool!.

From the life of teachers and students

This is a separate issue that cannot be ignored. Of course, some teachers who do not find a response from the audience to their questions have to give in something. And the bar of such compliance, sometimes, can be lowered to a minimum of lows:

There is an exam. The teacher explains:

- Question for five. How is voltage measured?

Silence.

- Question for four. How is voltage measured? A - voltmeter, B -

ammeter, V - ohmmeter.

Silence.

- Question for three. Isn't a voltmeter measuring voltage?

(Answer options for the question for three:

A - Exactly!!!

B - That's right

B - Not sure….

Probably, many people know about the joke about the future student, judging by the test work which is given below, to the Faculty of Mathematics andgeometry road booked in advance.

Very smart puzzles

Here's a problem for you, try to solve it:

“Kolya caught the girls, dipped them into a puddle and diligently measured the depth of each girl’s immersion, while Tolya just stood by and watched the girls flounder. How do Kolins Actions differ from Tolins, and how do physicists call such actions?”.

No way? And, as it turned out, the answer was utterly simple: “Tolya made observations, and Kolya set up experiments.”

And there are a dime a dozen such "smart" puzzles. Scientific humor from biology and genetic engineering deserves special attention. Here is a good aphorism for you from the field of collision of two scientific "enclaves":

"A group of mathematicians caught an esotericist who claimed that all knowledge was inherent in people, and forced him to meditate until he remembered how to solve differential equations."

Here are some genetic engineering puzzles for you:

Snow White has blood type II, white face, size 35 feet. The gnome has III blood group, black face, 55 foot size. What is the probability of having a child - a dwarf with a black face, I blood type, 55 foot size, if a white face and 35 size are dominant genes that lie on different chromosomes?

“In koloboks, the autosomal gene for baldness acts as a dominant one, while in koloboks it is recessive. Kolobiha, who has a bald brother, rolled out to marry a bald bun. The father of the colobiha was also bald. They had a bald bun and a bald bun. Kolobochkarolled out married a hairy kolobok. What is the probability that they will have a bald bun?”.

From them it becomes immediately clear that at a time when all children watched and enjoyed cartoons without any, future biologists and geneticists were already seriously thinking about what would be born in certain cases.

Separately about water

Science humor about water is also interesting. Any science teacher who is also a car enthusiast can tell you that:

“The water cycle in nature is when you just washed your car, the water from it evaporated and rose and turned into heavy clouds, and the next day, if it wasn’t okay, it started to rain…”

Any linguist would pay tribute to this joke:

- Do you have water?

- Not water, but water.

- Then give me some water!

- Not water, but water.

- Yes, I see you're getting drunk!”.

Any university student would agree with the following statement:

How to find water in the desert? When you are in the desert under a scorching sun without a single drop of water, start mentally retelling your term paper, and water will gush out of your mouth in a continuous stream!

Very great interest in some ignorant question:

“The chemical formula of vodka is C2H5OH. Water - H2O, carbon dioxide - CO2. If I breathe hard on the water, will I be able to go on a binge?”.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I would like to make an undeniable statement in its logic about thewater:

“Everyone you love and suffer for is 80% water. Why do you have these problems because of a miserable 20%? Just love water. It will be cheaper.”

But simple (unscientific) laymen are unlikely to agree with this! Have a good mood!