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My Theory on Space, Time, Imaginary Numbers and Super Bowl Rings.

Ever since the development of color television broadcasting, physicists have ceased generating any useful information, and are, instead, becoming more and more like Mullahs and Priests.

They have developed theories (mostly mathematical equations) to explain and predict natural occurances. But sometimes, they take the math, and completely abandon logic and common sense, to propose outlandish theories that five-year-olds find bizarre. For example, we have….

-Big Bang Theory

-Parallel Universes

-Wormholes for Time Travel

Star-divide

This bullshit is great fodder for TV, but is obviously totally irrational. How can these otherwise seemingly intelligent people make such incredible blunders in logic? I have the answer. The trouble is a reliance on mathematics. Math can be sometimes worse than the church, and Physicists worship math like Hillbillies worship Rattlesnakes.

To prove my point, I present the following, each step being learned in a high-school math class:

Start with the equation: 1 = 1

Now multiply both sides by -1 and get -1 = -1

which can be expressed as -1/1 = 1/-1

now take the square root of both sides Sqrt (-1/1) = Sqrt(1/-1)

Which can be re-written as Sqrt(-1)/ Sqrt(1) = Sqrt(1)/Sqrt(-1)

Now, if we multiply both sides by Sqrt(-1)

Sqrt(-1)* Sqrt(-1)/Sqrt(1) = Sqrt (-1) * Sqrt (1)/ Sqrt(-1)

Which results in the conclusion that -1/Sqrt(1) = Sqrt (1)

or, as the Physicists will point out

-1 = 1

Because of this, I still use my calculator, but I have my doubts about the Big Bang, Wormholes, or anything else that involves imaginary numbers.

Math can screw with your common sense.............. I figure that is why BOB did not get a ring last Sunday, Iowa has PSU's number, and Northwestern crushes Iowa with uncanny regularity.

From The Whitehole! ( the mathematical inverse of you know what)

Joe from Boalsburg

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You should take your fight up with string theory

Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?

by psuphysicist on Feb 8, 2012 9:33 AM EST reply actions  

Exactly.

...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...

by jesse. on Feb 8, 2012 9:50 AM EST up reply actions  

You sure jfb and joeofthemountain aren't the same person?

I mean – I don’t know of a mountain in Boalsburg, but still…

Unrepentant Joe Paterno Apologist®

by leeharvey418 on Feb 8, 2012 9:58 AM EST up reply actions  

Tussey Mountain.

He lives right by it. And now one person can be two so totally divergent kinds of crazy.

...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...

by jesse. on Feb 8, 2012 10:08 AM EST up reply actions  

And it has a "Yacht Club" halfway up it

How big can it really be?

Humanum est pati.

by Smee on Feb 9, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions  

We called it Tussey Bump back in the day.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

by 87Townie on Feb 10, 2012 11:42 AM EST up reply actions  

I'm always looking for a chance to evoke my man Milt Stegall:

"We’re not mathematically out of it, but the math we need, they haven’t invented it yet."

"I think what the university did to him was grossly wrong" -- Mike Ditka

by SubLime on Feb 8, 2012 9:59 AM EST reply actions   1 recs

Jesus, I need to borrow somebodies Glock.

...may we compete with fierce intensity, with the gifts that we have been given...

by jesse. on Feb 8, 2012 1:07 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

The Official Firearm of Black Shoe Diaries.

Yo RUTS, are you paying attention — sponsorship opportunity here.

"I think what the university did to him was grossly wrong" -- Mike Ditka

by SubLime on Feb 8, 2012 5:59 PM EST up reply actions  

I personally like

the S&W Bodyguard 380. But I’ve only fired that and a 9 mm Beretta.

"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." Joseph Vincent Paterno 1926-2012

by Paige2PSU on Feb 9, 2012 4:13 PM EST up reply actions  

Is that a calculator?

Son of an Infidel.....Eater of Vegetables!

by joefromboalsburg on Feb 8, 2012 6:59 PM EST up reply actions  

What is this i you speak of?

Never met him. Now j on the other hand, me and j are like this.

Anyway, the flashlights eat our human power grids, our souls if you will. So i destroyed them, and if a few precious panties were burnt or soiled in the reckoning then so be it

by millzners on Feb 9, 2012 12:48 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Well, when I took the mandatory EE class for ME students...

I swear on a stack of bibles that we used i to denote (-1)^0.5.

Unrepentant Joe Paterno Apologist®

by leeharvey418 on Feb 9, 2012 12:56 PM EST up reply actions  

When I was in school

All the physics and math professors used i, all the EE professors used j. Maybe your EE class was taught by a physics or math prof? i just looks werd to me, for my taste I need those low hanging cuves that only the lower case j can provide.

Anyway, the flashlights eat our human power grids, our souls if you will. So i destroyed them, and if a few precious panties were burnt or soiled in the reckoning then so be it

by millzners on Feb 9, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions  

I use i

But obviously, I’m a physicist.

However, I also use i, j, and k to denote unit vectors, but I put funny little hats on them.

Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?

by psuphysicist on Feb 9, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions  

i j and k are unit vectors to me too.

Never put hats on them though…

Unrepentant Joe Paterno Apologist®

by leeharvey418 on Feb 9, 2012 4:22 PM EST up reply actions  

What's your vector, Victor?

It’s okay, I can write this. I am an air traffic controller. Where’d I leave my drink?

by Pentimental on Feb 10, 2012 12:29 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Welp, if my post above didn't prove it

The fact that I love this comic so much does. I’m a massive nerd

Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?

by psuphysicist on Feb 8, 2012 2:48 PM EST up reply actions  

Its his imaginary friend.

Like, the 8 is a dork, or crazy, or something.

Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?

by psuphysicist on Feb 9, 2012 7:35 AM EST up reply actions  

He's definitely crazy.

Why else would he have eaten 9?

by dbl5030 on Feb 9, 2012 9:05 AM EST up reply actions  

actually, that was 7

but I’m sure that 8, being in such close proximity, was likely a witness. That would scar anyone for life.

by The JuggerNitt on Feb 9, 2012 9:29 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Yeahbut, what I was getting at...

is what is it about 8 that makes him the number who latches on to an imaginary friend?

…and wouldn’t any multiple of i be a suitable imaginary friend? Then lots of numbers could have imaginary friends.

I may be reading too much into the original comic…

Unrepentant Joe Paterno Apologist®

by leeharvey418 on Feb 9, 2012 10:51 AM EST up reply actions  

Definitely reading too much into it. However,

The number 8 has significance in both science and spirituality. For example:

In nuclear physics, the second magic number is 8.

In particle physics, the eightfold way is used to classify sub-atomic particles.

In chemistry, the maximum number of electrons that can occupy a valence shell.

A byte is eight bits

In human adult dentition there are eight teeth in each quadrant. The eighth tooth is the so-called wisdom tooth.

The Dharmacakra, a Buddhist symbol, has eight spokes. The Buddha’s principal teaching—the Four Noble Truths — ramifies as the Noble Eightfold Path.

The religious rite of brit milah (circumcision) is held on a baby boy’s eighth day of life.

In Revelation the Anti-Christ is the eighth king

In Wicca, there are eight Sabbaths, festivals, seasons, or spokes in the Wheel of the Year.

The Eight Immortals are Chinese demigods.

Etc.

The closest relationship I see to irrational numbers is the infinity. In mathematics the symbol of the infinity is represented by a 8 laid down.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno

by skellerdweller on Feb 9, 2012 12:04 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Glad I read this within striking distance of happy hour

In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them

by PSUMarine78 on Feb 8, 2012 3:07 PM EST reply actions  

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno

by skellerdweller on Feb 9, 2012 10:32 AM EST reply actions   2 recs

math fallacy

The problem here lies in the operation sqrt(a/b) = sqrt(a)/sqrt(b)…this only works if both numbers are positive. There’s tons of these fallacies.

by pwr110 on Feb 9, 2012 2:44 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions  

or the classic

2=1 proof where you divide by zero

by dbl5030 on Feb 10, 2012 8:38 AM EST up reply actions  

The numbers also have to be real

If lim n→ inf of a = Infinity and the lim n→inf of b = Infinity, then the sqrt of (a/b) also doesn’t make sense.

It is possible that sqrt(a)/sqrt(b) exists. Its also possible that it doesn’t. You have to know more about the functions that define a and b. But if its just sqrt(inf)/sqrt(inf), it doesn’t make any sense. Again, this is because infinity isn’t a real number. Its simply a concept.

BSD, now with 50% more math!

Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?

by psuphysicist on Feb 10, 2012 10:07 AM EST up reply actions  

I told Math.

Okay, pal, you have too many problems.

by Pentimental on Feb 10, 2012 12:27 PM EST up reply actions  

But does 2+2=5?

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose - Janis Joplin

by AriesGD on Feb 9, 2012 7:37 PM EST reply actions  

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