[extropy-chat] FWD (SK) OT: Physics humor

Dirk Bruere dirk at neopax.com
Sun Dec 14 20:44:25 UTC 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat at pacbell.net>
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] FWD (SK) OT: Physics humor


> --- "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Fowarded, since so many of the membership seem to be
> > "into" physics. I
> > didn't major in the subject, but I still laughed my
> > butt off when I read this:
> >
> >
> > Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
> >
> > < http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html >
>
> I don't even work in physics labs, and yet I've heard
> essentially this story far too many times in software
> experiments (which, being digital, are supposed to be
> able to avoid a lot of the "real world" noise).

All data resolves to a straight line with the right choice of logarithmic
scale.

Dirk

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