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Longest Physics Lecture in History?
gfrege writes "Perhaps you remember some long physics lectures from your days at school. But as part of a general strike of students at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin concerning cuts in funding for the city's universities, some physicists are in the middle of what could be the longest physics lecture in history. It started at noon on Monday, and is planned to run to noon on Thursday. Check out the topics, and if you're in Berlin, come on down. The Babelfish translations of the lecture titles make for some fun reading, too, if you can't make it there yourself."
Back in the days when I went to school (up hill both ways) we had lectures that lasted all winter. We got to school on day, it snowed 30 feet, spring came, snow melted then we got to go home. And we LIKED it. back in the day.
Ride recklessly only when safe to do so.
Again sorry, but you know it's funny.
why? forty-two.
... you'll think nothing of staying awake the entire lecture! (for once)
Students at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin will simultaneously break the world record for sleeping in class.
The performance follows a legal case in which composer Mike Batt was forced to pay a six-figure sum to Cage's publishers, who accused him of plagiarising a silent piece of music.
I've plagiarised that piece repeatedly.
--- 11 meters/second, or 24 miles per hour - the airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow. Really.
...but I was hoping to sleep in that week.
Wouldn't that be awesome if you could go to lectures for one 24-hour period per week! Then the rest of the week could be used for studying, and doing cool projects and shit. I figure that during the lecturing, you could take some cat naps for like, and hour at a time, and your friend could take notes for you. You could take turns. Ideally all the notes would be available online anyways, so if you took a 6 hour nap, you could get those notes.
I remember many 3 day physics lectures -- unfortunately most were only one hour in length!!!
This sheds new light on the old "look left, look right, look left again" rule when crossing the street: In quantum, by looking at the cars, you can affect their positions!
Doesn't apply to me (I tried, nearly got run over). Maybe it works if you're blond...?
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with nuclear bombs. We have a protractor.” — Neal Stepnenso
I guess this also makes for the largest act of masochism as well. Does it really make sense to do something so heartless to get their point across? And I thought that the mass deforestation done to protest the WTO in Seattle was bad.
Anyways, what will this accomplish? It seems to me like this will detract from their point, almost as if it's a lighthearted, happy little protest.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
are the apparent showing of pornography the 12 hours before the lecture begins and the 12 hours after it ends. If you look at the schedule, you'll note in those time slots, it does say XXX. :)
about as coherent as a professor awake for 1 hour
Kids these days just don't understand that the true point of university is to explore your alcoholic limits and avoid working for 3 years.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Schoell (DO) quantum mechanics for pedestrians
Are we going to hear something like the following:
"If you need to cross a busy street with cars going in both directions, go to a spot where the cars' wavefunctions form a standing wave. Then you can cross safely at the nodes, since the probability of any car being there will be very low."
If a reduction in budgets cause the professers to give 3-day lectures, maybe if the Universities ELIMINATED the budgets the professors would teach all year!
Sounds like everyone wins.
-Styopa
Oh my God. I ran that through Babelfish twice and got the EULA to Visual Studio. Suddenly, the world became a little clearer...
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
The real difference is, unlike a typical one hour lecture, students can't sleep through all 72 hours of this lecture.
But I can sure skip it.
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