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Chicken math problem answer7/5/2023 ![]() Satyendra Bose: An identical chicken already crossed the road, so this one was much more likely to do the same. Oskar Klein: Actually, it can get to the other side of the road without crossing it. Howard Georgi: It can cross all it wants, but I’m going to sit here and wait until it decays.Įdward Teller: I will build a more powerful chicken, and it will cross the road with more energy than any chicken before! Hans Geiger: I don’t know, but I say we count how many times it crosses! So apparently, the ones that scattered the most had the longest waves. The funny thing is that the ones that ended farthest away were still waving at me a few minutes later. Now, for the sake of my precious sanity, I beg you, stop that incessant clucking and be gone!Īrthur Compton: There were a bunch of chickens waving at me on this side of the road, but then a car came along and they all scattered to the other side. Henry Cavendish: My dear chicken, I have calculated with the utmost detail and precision the density of your insides. They therefore surely must have crossed at least one road on their way here. John Bell: Since there are no local hidden chickens, any hidden chickens you find must have come from far away. Rather, it exists simultaneously on both sides….just don’t peek.Ĭharles Coulomb: The chicken found a similar chicken on this side of the road to be repellent. So he asked the chicken if she’d like to come over to his side, and she said sure.Įrwin Schrodinger: The chicken doesn’t cross the road. Richard Feynman, 2: There was this good-looking rooster on the other side of the road, and he figured he’d skip all the games and just get to the point. Richard Feynman, 1: It’s all quite clear from this simple little diagram of a circle with lines poking out of it. ![]() Werner Heisenberg: Because I made darn sure it was standing right next to me on this side. Therefore, at least one chicken crosses the road. Henri Poincare: Let’s try changing the initial position of the chicken just a tiny, tiny, tiny bit, and….look, it’s now across the road!Įnrico Fermi: In estimating to the nearest power of 10 the number of chickens that cross the road, note that since fractional chickens are not allowed, the desired power must be at least zero. John David Jackson: You’ll find out after you complete this 37-page calculation. However, when it arrived on the other side it still felt the same pressure. I informed it that it was nevertheless still in my space, so it went across the road.īlaise Pascal: The chicken felt pressure on this side of the road. I say it was a sixth power.ĭavid Hilbert: I was standing on the side of the road and a chicken came along, evidently in some kind of strange state. ![]() Johannes van der Waals: Some say it was a sixth sense that led the chicken to cross the road. Ludwig Boltzmann: If you have enough chickens, it is a near certainty that one of them will cross the road. Robert Van de Graaf: Hey, doesn’t it look funny with all its feathers sticking up like that?Īlbert Michelson and Edward Morley: Our experiment was a failure. Jean-Dernard-Leon Foucault: What’s interesting is that if you wait a few hours, it will be crossing the road a few inches back that way. Wolfgang Pauli: There was already a chicken on this side of the road.Ĭarl Sagan: There are billions and billions of such chickens, crossing roads just like this one, all across the universe. Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. David Morin Albert Einstein: The chicken did not cross the road. The limericks are there just to lighten things up. But don’t let those fool you about the book - it's a serious one, as you'll see if you take a look. If you like this page, you’ll probably like the limericks in my new mechanics textbook. Here are some answers, in the spirit of various well-known physicists, to the age-old question:Īfter finding the first four of the following answers on the web, I figured I’d make up some more, and I got on a roll.
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