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MacGyver Physics

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-not-to-like-that-fellow dept.

counterfriction writes "This month's issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory. From the article: 'Leon Lederman ... used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do now show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed.'"

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  1. The original hardware store experiment by edwardpickman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't about time some one confirmed the cat, box and pistol experiment? Schrödinger Cat has been living on borrowed time long enough.

    1. Re:The original hardware store experiment by SpottedKuh · · Score: 5, Funny

      Schrödinger Cat has been living on borrowed time long enough.

      Or has it?
    2. Re:The original hardware store experiment by arpy · · Score: 5, Funny

      We appear to have Schrödingered their web server: We all went to look and now it's dead.

  2. big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once used spaghetti, vaseline, plastic wrap, and an ovaltine jar to make a synthetic pussy. But you don't see me bragging about it.

  3. Dear MacGyver- by Vituperator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear MacGyver-

    Enclosed is a rubber band, a paper clip, and a drinking straw. Please save my dog.

    1. Re:Dear MacGyver- by revolu7ion · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dear Vituperator,
      Please find your dog attached. Don't thank me - thank the moon's gravitational pull.

      Sincerely
      MacGyver

      --
      Jesus Saves