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Tthat's right! If you could repeal one law of physics, which one would it be?

That women are not attracted to me ;)

I'm not real sure about this ... but maybe Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

Uh......what?

that law about the equal and opposite reaction. i don't like consequences.

Gravity.

Because I'm a nihilist at heart. :p

Quantum tunneling.

It would let us make computers much smaller and faster.

Gravity.

Because I'm a nihilist at heart. :p

Science damn you!

The law of conservation of energy.

Planck's constant because it ruined Quantum physics :mad:

Friction would be good too if that counts

I'm not real sure about this ... but maybe Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
:D

You win the thread. On post #3 - quite impressive. :)

The one that always makes bread land on the buttered side and makes me spill my drink only when it's not water but something coloured and sticky.

I'm sure it's the same one. *glowers*

One Molar Mass, good sir, is the greatest unit in all of physics.

The one that always makes bread land on the buttered side and makes me spill my drink only when it's not water but something coloured and sticky.

I'm sure it's the same one. *glowers*

You know you can create a perpetual motion machine by sticking a piece of bread buttered side up to a cat's back, then dropping the cat. The cat will try landing on its feet and the bread will try landing buttered side down, thus the cat will start spinning quickly when it's a few inches above the floor.

Erm, yeah.

Actually, the reason the bread lands buttered side down is because of the height it's dropped from. Apparently an average piece of bread will revolve one and a half times when dropped from a height of about a metre. Seeing as how that's roughly the height of most tables/work surfaces in a kitchen, it's hardly surprising bread often lands buttered side down.

You know you can create a perpetual motion machine by sticking a piece of bread buttered side up to a cat's back, then dropping the cat. The cat will try landing on its feet and the bread will try landing buttered side down, thus the cat will start spinning quickly when it's a few inches above the floor.

Erm, yeah.

Actually, the reason the bread lands buttered side down is because of the height it's dropped from. Apparently an average piece of bread will revolve one and a half times when dropped from a height of about a metre. Seeing as how that's roughly the height of most tables/work surfaces in a kitchen, it's hardly surprising bread often lands buttered side down.

nonononononono, it's murphy's law. that'd be a good law to get rid of.

nonononononono, it's murphy's law. that'd be a good law to get rid of.
Yeah, but Murphy's Law was invented by a drunk Irishman. Imagine the sort of law that would be invented by a pissed-off drunk Irishman.

Edit: Just a thought...is 'drunk Irishman' a tautology?

Second Law of Thermodynamics. Now we won't need a computer to solve the problem of entropy...

nonononononono, it's murphy's law. that'd be a good law to get rid of.
Second Law of Thermodynamics. Now we won't need a computer to solve the problem of entropy...
I know it is, but since this thread is about a Laws of Physics and I don't have the slightest knowledge about physics, I had to at least try and sell Murphy's law as something scientific, eh?

You know you can create a perpetual motion machine by sticking a piece of bread buttered side up to a cat's back, then dropping the cat. The cat will try landing on its feet and the bread will try landing buttered side down, thus the cat will start spinning quickly when it's a few inches above the floor.

Erm, yeah.
That would have made me laugh if not for some other NSer who for some reason ended the same scenario with making a "fresh bloody smoothie" out of the cat just the other day. >.<

Actually, the reason the bread lands buttered side down is because of the height it's dropped from. Apparently an average piece of bread will revolve one and a half times when dropped from a height of about a metre. Seeing as how that's roughly the height of most tables/work surfaces in a kitchen, it's hardly surprising bread often lands buttered side down.
Really?
I thought it was because the buttered side is heavier?
Too easy?

Edit: Just a thought...is 'drunk Irishman' a tautology? Yes. Too easy.

Yeah, but Murphy's Law was invented by a drunk Irishman. Imagine the sort of law that would be invented by a pissed-off drunk Irishman.

It's called Boyle's Law...

That would have made me laugh if not for some other NSer who for some reason ended the same scenario with making a "fresh bloody smoothie" out of the cat just the other day. >.<

I can see that...

Really?
I thought it was because the buttered side is heavier?
Too easy?
Really.
No.
Yes.

If you drop a piece of buttered bread in the same manner from about 1.4 metres, it'll likely land buttered side up.

It's called Boyle's Law...
Why was he pissed off?

Really.
No.
Yes.

If you drop a piece of buttered bread in the same manner from about 1.4 metres, it'll likely land buttered side up.
I don't believe you.

Am sorely tempted to go do some experiments in the kitchen but am out of bread. Rats.

ETA: "Rats" as in "damn". Not as in "ate the bread". <.<

Why was he pissed off?

Well, he's Irish. That pretty much explains it.

Newton's first law of motion:

an object at rest tends to stay in rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion in a straight line at constant speed.

Objects moving randomly! Or not.
Yoo-hoo!

Why was he pissed off?

Umm...he was Irish?

most of your choices are one letter. How are we supposed to know what laws of physics those are?

the one where we cant go faster then the speed of light :mp5:

Second Law of Thermodynamics - that the entropy (choas) of the Universe always increases irreversibly. It will end the universe as we know it in about 1^1700 years , no matter how advanced a species is technologically, it cannot escape heat death.

And oh, do check out Asimov's short story called "The Last Question."

Let's repeal the one that says you can't turn ordinary metal into gold!

yes even supermassive black holes at the center of some galaxys will cease to exsit in like 10^100 years due to hawkings radation

Let's repeal the one that says you can't turn ordinary metal into gold!
uhh you really can all you would need to do would be to change the protons in the right number then have a stable istope with the right amount of neurtons the balence the protons with same number of electrons

Repealing any law of physics would probably fuck up the universe.

uhh you really can all you would need to do would be to change the protons in the right number then have a stable istope with the right amount of neurtons the balence the protons with same number of electrons

Umm ok, I got alot of scrapped tin foil, mold them into bars and turn them into gold! :D

the entropy one.

Umm ok, I got alot of scrapped tin foil, mold them into bars and turn them into gold! :D
that would require changing stuff at the subatomic structure or things smaller then an atom i think we can only do that in a particle accelerator which we can only make a couple of them at a time ( correct me if i am wrong) becuase otherwise it would be alchemy

that would require changing stuff at the subatomic structure or things smaller then an atom i think we can only do that in a particle accelerator which we can only make a couple of them at a time ( correct me if i am wrong) becuase otherwise it would be alchemy

Whatever ya have to do.

Thermordynamics. Then perpetual motion might be possible.

If I could repeal theories I'd have to go with General and Special Relativity. That old spoil-sport Einstein ruined everyones dreams of FTL travel!

And now, something slightly different. The Perpetual motion machine was originally invented (or discovered) by Homer the Simpson. No, it doesn't have anything to do with the Simpsons animated series. Homer the Simpson was the brother of Homer, the famous greek poet (who incidentally wrote the first ever animated series sitcom named the AlphaBeta-Zimpzons). The story goes something like this: Homer the Simpson was walking along a forest path in search of a good spot to admire nature and to masturbate at dead buffalo when he hit a rock with his leg, by mistake. Obviously, shoes were inexistent at the time so you could imagine the amount of pain delivered to Homer's foot. He screamed in agony and jumped up and down, thus hitting his head on a tree branch. The tree was a willow. He had hit his head so hard on the branch that pine cones fell off and smacked his testicles (didn't I mention he was naked?). The pain from his aching gonads caused him to hit a rock with his foot, resulting in hitting his head on the branch, resulting in another cone hitting his testies, resulting...yadda yadda... Homer had not known it at the time, but he had discovered the perpetual motion machine. His first essay on this phenomenon was first written...never. He died of all the pain. And his balls fell off. The "New Orleans Hospital for Genital, Foot and Head Aches" declared him officialy dead on the 30th of February, 9 B.C. at 3 o'clock in the night...morning...whatever. A nurse stole his balls to put them in her vagina but her husband found them and tossed them in the river. That river is now call Testississippi. you can now find his balls in the Museum of natural history.

Thanks Uncyclopedia.

I'm not real sure about this ... but maybe Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

SOme day, you may get your wish. :)

There are many physicists who believe that the Uncertainty Principle is not a law, but merely a lack of knowledge. Einstein was one of them. I am too. :)

I don't believe you.

Am sorely tempted to go do some experiments in the kitchen but am out of bread. Rats.

ETA: "Rats" as in "damn". Not as in "ate the bread". <.<
No need. Just watch the Mythbusters episode dealing with it. Second season. They'll prove it to ya.

most of your choices are one letter. How are we supposed to know what laws of physics those are?

By the way, what's "P" supposed to be? If it is Pascal (N/m^2), its symbol is Pa.

SOme day, you may get your wish. :)

There are many physicists who believe that the Uncertainty Principle is not a law, but merely a lack of knowledge. Einstein was one of them. I am too. :)

Actually, in quantum squeezed states, we can manipulate a bit the Uncertainity Principle. See books about quantum optics, but beware that they're all meant for physicists - very technical and lots of maths.

Actually, in quantum squeezed states, we can manipulate a bit the Uncertainity Principle. See books about quantum optics, but beware that they're all meant for physicists - very technical and lots of maths.

Thanks for the warning. :p