Inside Jokes

Perhaps the best part of belonging to a group of people is the inside jokes. The field of physics is no different. I often find myself making jokes with the other physics students at Grand Valley and catch myself telling jokes to my friends and family who will not get the inside joke. I so enjoy this past (and present) time that I decided to share my fun with anyone who might read this blog. I was bored tonight while waiting for some friends to finish a programming assignment, I began to look up funny physics jokes. I started on Facebook by searching Flair and actually found a few good results including a red flair that said, "If this button in blue, you're going too fast." This joke refers to red and blue shifts in light, a sort of Doppler Effect/Shift that occurs with variances in the relative speeds of light emitting objects. I continued by Googling physics comics and found some about Schrodinger's Cat and one really funny one about being a physics undergrad (see link below). I also Googled physics jokes and found a great page that had several physics jokes and the explanations so that you can actually tell them to your friends and wow them with your knowledge of physics. I've put the link below. I hope that this brightens your day and brings you one step closer to fully appreciating the awesomeness that is physics!

Here's the Physics Undergrad comic:
http://www.brightlywound.com/comic/wallpaper01-800x600.jpg

Here's the Physics Joke page:
http://jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/jokes/physicsjokes.html

And seeing as how I told a joke about the Doppler Shift, here's a page for anyone who might want to know more about red and blue shifts:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/doppler.htm