Oh, didn't know that I was a physicist, among all my other talents, one of them being able to spell "physicist" without batting an eye?
Well then, buckle down, flock.
There are two thermodynamic theories, both highly successful at predicting heat phenomena. One, the phenomenological (I got an Abner prize in a spelling bee for that), is more abstract and generalized. The other, the statistical (Homer Prize, 1976) is based on an atomic model and corresponds more to physical reality. In particular, the statistical theory depicts thermal equilibrium as a state of random motions of atoms. (Science Top Whiz, Scouts, 1978).
Einstein got in there slightly before me and described Brownian motion. I thought Brownian motion was either the the speed in which chocolate cake managed to desert a flat ceramic disc, or, er, something best left to proctologists to describe.
But nothing in all my studies, which I reluctantly abandoned before my first marijuana cross-country road trip, ever described how the scissors in the little plastic container on my desk always seem to make it into Brigitte's container across the way.
Never solved it. And she's not about to tell me the secret.
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