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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