Tuesday, August 29, 2017

EXPLANATIONS TO 28 JOKES ONLY SMART PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND: PART III


15. Helium walks into a bar and orders a beer, the bartender says, “‘Sorry, we don’t serve noble gases here.” He doesn’t react.

Why it’s funny: Helium is a noble gas which is inert.


16. Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t.


Why it’s funny: Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment in quantum physics, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The scenario presents a cat that may be both alive and dead, depending on an earlier random event. Although the original “experiment” was imaginary, similar principles have been researched and used in practical applications. The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics.


17. A Buddhist monk approaches a hot dog stand and says “Make me one with everything.”

Why it’s funny: The punch line is “make me one with everything” which is part of the Buddhist idea, being “one with everything in the world”.


18. A Higgs Boson walks into a church and the priest says “we don’t allow Higgs Bosons in here”. The Higgs Boson then replies, “but without me, how could you have mass?”


Why it’s funny: The Higgs boson or Higgs particle is an elementary particle discovered and announced at CERN. It would explain why some fundamental particles have mass when the symmetries controlling their interactions should require them to be massless, and why the weak force has a much shorter range than the electromagnetic force. Co-incidentally it is called "the god particle", which can create mass. Here it is used to effect of a  church mass.


19. The programmer’s wife tells him: “Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen.” The programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread.

Why it’s funny: As he is a computer programmer he would follow it as a computer instruction. So his wife asked him to get bread and if they had eggs get 12. Since they had eggs he bought 12 loaves of bread.


20. There’s a band called 1023MB. They haven’t had any gigs yet.

Why it’s funny: 1 giga byte = 1024 MB or megabytes. GB is also called as gigs popularly.


21. A photon is going through airport security. The TSA agent asks if he has any luggage. The photon says, “No, I’m traveling light.”

Why it’s funny: “Traveling light” is a turn of phrase used to indicate traveling without much (or any) luggage. In science, a photon is a particle of light (almost always moving).

From bhavinionline

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