ATTENTION, NOBEL PRIZE JUDGES

University researchers have proven, mathematically, that physics is hard.

(Thanks to Jay Brandes)

Comments

[pogo]

Actually it's pretty easy until you get to Schroedinger and that damned cat. After that it all goes to hell.

[Horace LaBadie]

So, does 1+1 equal 11 or not?

[DrPat]

No, Horace, it equals 10.

[Ralph]

"...others, such as optimization problems of logistics in freight transport...."

This is classically called "The Traveling Salesman Problem" or "TSP." Concise English is hard too.

[Loudmouth]

Toby Cubitt proves that Toby Cubitt is mathematically Toby Cubitt except for the times Toby Cubitt is not Toby Cubitt because Toby Cubitt could not prove mathematically Toby Cubitt's existence to Toby Cubitt.

[Horace LaBadie]

Doesn't the Traveling Salesman Problem involve The Farmer's Daughter?

[wiredog]

No Horace, 1+1=-2*e^(i*π)

[padraig]

Physics is hard, and painful and unforgiving, especially that gravity stuff. Plus, they still haven't figured out how the f**k magnets work.

[O the Umanity]

Physics is hard difficult?

Nah ... Ontogeny recapitulates Phyogeny. Mobius said that, long ago, and the conclusion therefrom is Intuitively Obvious ... every Math student with a modicum of common sense knows that. The Proof is in the Pudding. Or Putting. Whutever.

[nursecindy]

I had a kid ask me the other day to help with her math homework. I had already done her English homework so I just put my foot down and told her that the only way she would learn is to do it herself. Sometimes you just have to get tough. Besides, math is not my thing and I wouldn't know how to do averages if someone put a gun to my head. I am pretty good at percentages. Especially when a shoe sale is involved.

[Curtis E Flush]

What're the odds!?

[Omniskeptic]

I think, therefore my brain hurts. Or was it the other way around?

[O the Umanity]

P'haps, Omni' ... or mebbe it's the fact that ...

OW!

Now MY brain hurts!

[queensbee]

this will doubtlessly find its way into the Ig-Noble awards in the fall. awarded at MIT i think. google Ig-noble and you can see previous winners, all champions! (great for science nerds)

[MikeyVA]

As a physics teacher/instructor, etc. I must say! Wimps!!!!!!!!

[Barbie]

Math is hard!

[MikeyVA]

A good man is hard to find, and visa versa.

[max]

A quantum physicist says that physics is hard?

There are two types of physicists, hard physicists and soft physicists. Hard physicists study things which can actually be measured like the effects of gravity and how many electrons can dance on the head of a pin. Soft physicists come up with silly ideas that no one can test like "if a particle could travel faster than light who would it vote for on American Idol" and "is there a gravitationally induced temperature gradient in an insulated fluid column at equilibrium situated in a gravitational field"*. This quantum physicist says that hard physics and other hard sciences are easy and his type of soft physics is too hard for computers because computers can only deal with things which are real instead of wild guesses.

*I am informed that recently hard physicists have caught up with the soft physicists' Loschmidt and Boltzmann/Maxwell dispute of the late 19th century and that Loschmidt was right, there is a temperature gradient. This might annoy the quantum physicists and other soft physicists who have spent a century and half building up theories based upon Boltzman & Maxwell being correct. Now they have to turn another branch over to computers and hard physicists who will discover that every thing the soft physicists said was wrong, and start campaigning to get American Idol canceled before the hard physicists with the easy job can discover a faster-than-light particle.

[O the Umanity]

max ... I'm really glad y'all cleared that up ... now I can sleep better @ night ...

[pogo]

max - while you are in there, strangle Schroedinger AND his damned cat. Then there won't be any uncertainty about it.

[Loudmouth]

Highsenberg, Lowsenberg. Who knows? (spell check actually has Heisenberg in it, who knew?)

[Ted the Professor]

What is Physics?

Thank you.