MacGyver Physics 165
counterfriction writes "This month's issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory. From the article: 'Leon Lederman ... used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do now show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed.'"
Changes over time? (Score:5, Funny)
As compared to last week, when they didn't.
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The original hardware store experiment (Score:5, Funny)
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Or has it?
MacGyver Physics According To Engineers... (Score:5, Funny)
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You can prove this with two polarizers at right angles if you crumple up a piece of chewing gum wrapper and stick it between them. When held up to a light source, only the light that goes through through the chewing gum wrapper makes it through the second polarizer- the rest is all dark. And since the rotation is frequency dependent, the chewing gum wrapper is glowing in multiple colors. Especially if you do a good job when you crumple it up. It would look great on TV.
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Oblig Simpsons Quote (Score:5, Funny)
Dear MacGyver- (Score:5, Funny)
Enclosed is a rubber band, a paper clip, and a drinking straw. Please save my dog.
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Please find your dog attached. Don't thank me - thank the moon's gravitational pull.
Sincerely
MacGyver
Of course. (Score:4, Funny)
Macgyver: The college years! (Score:4, Funny)
(warning: rated PG-13)
Episode 1 [youtube.com]
Episode 2 [youtube.com]
You know you're reading /. (Score:5, Funny)
Tells you something about the audience.
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Sounds like a strange way to run the Schrödinger cat experiment.... any interesting results?
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All possible girlfriend wave functions collapsed instantly! :P
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"Without the Swiss Army Knife, we would've been hopeless," Lederman said. "That was our primary tool."
After which he developed the now famous Lederman tool. [leatherman.com]