Posted on 04/11/2006 3:08:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Maybe something to do with harmonics?
"I counter-suppose that the number "5" would disagree with you."
Yes, yes, yes, but if you do an analytical algebraic topology of local Euclidian meterizations of infinitely differential Riemannian manifolds (bor shamov!), you will see that 5 is a nullity for these purposes, a "zero", as the article so clearly stated, and it becomes intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that 42 is holy and gravitrons have no mass!
You've gotta get into the spirit of the article, man!
Ha ha... On the note of university administrators:
The Dean, speaking to the chair of the Physics Department:
"Why do I always have to give you guys so much money for laboratories and expensive equipment and stuff?
Why couldn't you be like the math department? All they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets!
Or even better, like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper!"
(Found this one when I was looking for that mathematician in the hotel room joke)
"Is this the drunkard's walk?"
Nope.
On an international flight, I stole Madonna's notes on the kabbalah.
And I learned all of this from her notebook, so it must be true!
Got my towel and babelfish ready!
One is the loneliest number - Three Dog Night
Conventional thinker!
5 is the Newtonian number.
You must think Einsteinian.
YES!!!!
By JOVE! You have it!
So that particular partition would be the way to apply the circle method of Hardy and Littlewood here? ;-)
Graffiti seen on a New York City subway platform:
"I've just solved Fermat's Last Theorem, but I don't have time to write it down because my train is coming!"
Entry from a Fermat's Last Theorem limerick competition:
"My butter, garcon, is writ large in!"
A diner was heard to be chargin'
"I had to write there,"
Exclaimed waiter Pierre,
"I couldn't find room in the margarine."
Ok, I'll stop trolling now.
Whenever I read science written to be so opaque and mysterious and self-congratulatory as that article, I become inspired and I just GOTTA put on my blue pointy wizard's hat and start revealing the Deeper Truths of the Universe.
Forgive me.
LOLOLOLOL - post of the day. I am assuming you are using Riemannian geometry with the standard metric, for a topology...
I defy you to send me a prime number that I cannot factor ;)
argh. LOL
Philosophers have always pointed out that mathematics is mother to science, and now, we have <-> Fur Shur, eh!
If mathematics is the mother to science, then logically there is a theorem that describes the entire universe (ignore the fact that I used mathematics to make that conjecture--or metamathematics--because I want to sound cool).
Or perhaps it's not a theorem at all, but instead is a computer program (how could you tell the difference?). And that means we can probably hack it! I think I am going to try to put a smiley face on the Moon!
Ohh Kaaay (slowly backing away)
LOL
If you turn it around you're bound to have a hit TV show too!
That's another classic one.
There's a very dirty one that ends with "...he said to the prostitute, `I can't tell the difference, I'm a topologist.'"
But that is just too hot for FR.
mumbemumblemumble - hey, trees are houses - from a pilot's perspective.
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