Thursday, January 31, 2013

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Richard Feynman: It didn't cross the road to the other side. It actually came back to where it started but was momentarily moving backward in time. .emit ni drawkcab gnivom yliratnemom saw tub detrats ti erehw to kcab emac yllautca tI .edis rehot eht to daor eht ssorc t'ndid tI :namnyeF drahciR

Nicolaus Copernicus: Despite the evidence of your senses, I can show that it is mathematically simpler to describe it as a road passing under the chicken.

Archimedes: Eureka!

Andre Ampere: To keep current on events.

Alexander Graham Bell: To get to the nearest phone.

Werner Heisenberg: If the chicken is moving very fast, you can either observe the chicken or you can measure the chicken, but you cannot do both.

Robert Boyle: The chicken was under pressure to cross the road.

Marie Curie: The chicken was radiant as it crossed the road.

Albert Camus: It doesn't matter; crossing the road has no meaning except to the chicken.

C. J. Doppler: For its effect on passers-by.

Thomas Edison: The chicken found it illuminating.

Stephen Hawking: There exist numerous parallel universes in which the same chicken is in differing stages of crossing the road.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your point of view.

Gustav Hertz: Lately, the chicken has been crossing the road with greater frequency.

Galileo: To get a better look at the other side.

Johannes Kepler: The chicken crossed in an arc, not a straight line.

Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

Ohm: Because there was less resistance on the other side of the road.

James Watt: To let off steam.

Immanuel Kant: The chicken, being an autonomous being, crossed the road to exercise free will.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes back at you.

(O)CT(O)PUS: A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

3 comments:

  1. Ooooh, that hertz -- but Gustav? Don't you mean his Uncle Heinrich? Uncle Hank did his famous experiment showing the identity of light and lower frequency electromagnetic radiation in 1887, the same year his nephew Gus was born. Probably the first radio broadcast although Edison patented a system of wireless telegraphy at about the same time - years before that charlatan Tesla.

    CAPT.FOGG: Because bird brains prefer the right side of the road.

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  2. Ohm - resistance is not futile, it's v÷a.

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  3. E=IR Not just a good idea, it's the law!

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