In the Dark

I was a bit bored on the bus this morning, as it got stuck in a traffic jam, so decided to amuse myself (and probably nobody else) by thinking up physics-related versions of traditional proverbs and tweeting them (hashtag #physicsproverbs). I thought it might be fun to use them to indulge in a bit of audience participation, by asking the blogosphere to contribute their own through  the comments box below.

Here are some of my offerings:

• Never mind the Q-factor, feel the FWHM
• Don’t throw stones if there are periodic boundary conditions
• A stitch in time may violate causality
• A thing of beauty is now generally known as a bottom
• No amplifier, no gain
• Nothing is certain, except death and deterministic processes
• Blood is thicker than dark matter
• May the Devil take the Hindmarsh
• Don’t change potentials in mid streamline
• Angular momentum makes the world go round
• Many a micro makes a mega
• When the cat’s away the mice will annoy Dr Schrödinger
• Ask a silly question, and you might well get a research grant
• Discreteness is the greater part of granularity
• There’s no time like t=0
• The course of a random walk never did run smooth
• Many hadrons make very few Higgs Bosons at CERN
• Actions speak louder than differential equations
• Radiation pressure makes light work
• Don’t cast your PRLs before swine
• Nature abhors most of the papers submitted there
• Photons should be seen and not heard. As opposed to phonons.
• Power corrupts. Absolute power has exactly the same effect because power is always positive.

You can see all the tweets resulting from the Twitter version of this game here.

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