The Cake Equation
Yesterday being the last Friday of the month of May it was time for another tea-and-cake event in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. These provide an opportunity for staff to get together and chat while demolishing a specially-themed cake. The cakes themselves are organized by the inestimable Miss Lemon and I never know what the theme is before the goods arrive, so I have to ad lib a short introduction (for just a minute, without repetition, hesitation, deviation or repetition) before cutting the cake.
As you will observe, this time the (Lemon Drizzle) cake was decorated with the Dirac Equation (which I consider to be the most beautiful equation in physics)..
In the Dark 
May 31, 2014 at 8:20 pm
I assume the cake was soon annihilated.
May 31, 2014 at 9:22 pm
Maxwell !
May 31, 2014 at 11:46 pm
Was there a corresponding anticake?
June 1, 2014 at 2:42 pm
An interesting application to the Icing model.
June 4, 2014 at 4:31 pm
Years ago at Berkeley, we had a cake for Joe Silk’s 50th birthday with a plot of the CMB angular power spectrum on it, including, of course, the Silk damping part.
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