Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Kelly's Physics Joke!

So Heisenberg is driving down the Autobahn, and a cop pulls him over for speeding.

Cop: "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg: "No, but I know exactly where I am!"

Readers should rest assured that the Editors of the Yuba Post will not let me make this a recurring column...

2 comments:

Pop Doyle said...

I don't get this joke.

hpesojnad said...

It has to do with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The principle says that you cannot measure both an objects position and its velocity at the same time. If you know how fast you are going, then you can't know where you are, and the reverse. The principle is only supposed to concern quantum mechanics.

I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost...