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A Heisenberg joke(the physicist) (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Dec 2014 OP
I chortled. nt Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #1
Thank you! GoneOffShore Dec 2014 #2
Nice. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #3
I heard it: Kelvin Mace Dec 2014 #4
Fractal joke: Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #5
Another Ha! nt Are_grits_groceries Dec 2014 #6
very good! I guess I should reiterate....(ad infinitum?) Bill USA Dec 2014 #8
Yes! Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #17
Wow!! ...Mind Blowing!!! Bill USA Dec 2014 #22
what you should never say to Benoit Mandelbrot, when he was alive: "Can you elaborate on that?" Bill USA Dec 2014 #23
Good one! nt MannyGoldstein Dec 2014 #7
teehee Solly Mack Dec 2014 #9
I admit it; I had to look it up;also, Heisenberg & Schrodinger get pulled over. Divernan Dec 2014 #10
That deserves a Pinkie Pie Rimshot. hifiguy Dec 2014 #12
I'll be here all week; remember to tip your servers! Divernan Dec 2014 #13
If Heisenberg and Schrodinger were traveling together that would be a hoot. Great joke. yellowcanine Dec 2014 #28
Lol I love that joke TxDemChem Dec 2014 #11
Philosopher joke: pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #14
Too much physics killed this joke for me, alas. Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2014 #15
"Do you know how fast you're going?" pokerfan Dec 2014 #16
That's just inserting Yogi Berra, needlessly, into this. nt msanthrope Dec 2014 #18
'Do you know how fast you were going? " pokerfan Dec 2014 #19
And the Zen cop sez-- eridani Dec 2014 #20
Good joke - I tried it on the kids bhikkhu Dec 2014 #21
or ... Heisenberg: "Yes, but in what direction, officer?" Bill USA Dec 2014 #24
Oh the physicist, I thought you meant the brand of hot dogs. Rex Dec 2014 #25
Are you certain this is a joke? n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2014 #26
you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. unblock Dec 2014 #27
 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
4. I heard it:
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 04:35 PM
Dec 2014

Cop: Do you know you doing 85 miles per hour.

Heisenberg: No, but I know where I am.

Of course my more up to date take on the joke would be:

Heisenberg flies by a cop doing 85 mph in a 55 mph zone.

The cop pulls him over and shoots him dead.

The Heisenberg Grand Jury Certainty Principle states that it was certainly a justified killing.

Divernan

(15,480 posts)
10. I admit it; I had to look it up;also, Heisenberg & Schrodinger get pulled over.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 06:48 PM
Dec 2014

Heisenberg was a theoretical physicist and came up with the uncertainty principle, which essentially states that you can not simultaneously know both the position and momentum of an particle.

Heisenberg and Schrödinger get pulled over for speeding.

The cop asks Heisenberg "Do you know how fast you were going?"

Heisenberg replies, "No, but we know exactly where we are!"

The officer looks at him confused and says "you were going 108 miles per hour!"

Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, "Great! Now we're lost!"

The officer looks over the car and asks Schrödinger if the two men have anything in the trunk.

"A cat," Schrödinger replies.

The cop opens the trunk and yells "Hey! This cat is dead."

Schrödinger angrily replies, "Well he is now."


Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
15. Too much physics killed this joke for me, alas.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 08:00 PM
Dec 2014

At first I thought it was funny. But then I overthought it and realised that at the point the cop stopped him, his momentum and his uncertainty drop to zero, so the joke doesn't work

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
19. 'Do you know how fast you were going? "
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 09:37 PM
Dec 2014

What, relative to ...

a. the center of the Earth?
b. the Sun?
c. the center of the galaxy?

bhikkhu

(10,718 posts)
21. Good joke - I tried it on the kids
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:45 PM
Dec 2014

they didn't get it. Maybe tomorrow I'll have to try it on the guys at work...

unblock

(52,245 posts)
27. you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in.
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 05:00 PM
Dec 2014

i was not going over the speed limit.

i *am* the speed limit.

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