Little low on time to write today, but I whipped off some of my favorite things!
First person to get all three correctly gets respect.
Riddle 1
I haven’t a clue
What time is to you
I’m far too fast
To know time has passed
Riddle 2
Though short in range, they say I’m strong,
Making small things get along.
And thanks to me, the sky is lit
At night, at least a little bit
Riddle 3
A cosmic transmitter,
I’m not, though may seem it
A regular jitter
Of wavelengths, I beam it
I’ll take light for $200 alex. and or ninjas
1: A photon.
2: The strong atomic force.
3: Not so sure about this…I’m guessing either a pulsar, or the entire electromagnetic spectrum. That’s the best my puny musician education can manage!
Riddle 1 is a neutrino maybe?
1. A tachyon
2. The weak force
3. A pulsar
Is this first light, and the second gluons?
1. Photons (time elapsed in a photon’s frame is always 0)
2. Gluons (mediating the short-range strong force)
Not sure on the third one- will have to think on it…
What are photons!?
Dammit, I don’t know the third one, but I’ve got the first two…
Light, Gravitational Force, and… ?
1) photon?
2) weak nuclear force?
3) pulsar?
I’m gonna go with quantum entanglement, the strong nuclear force, and a pulsar, respectively.
Light
vaan der Waals force
black hole for $10000
1. Light
2. Strong Nuclear Force
3. Pulsar?
penis
penis
penis?
Holy cripes, that was fast. I’m gonna give it 30 more minutes so everyone has a chance to guess, then post answers.
Hint: It’s not penis, penis, and penis.
Light, covalent bonds and more or less a shot in the dark but electromagnetic radiation? orz
3 is luminiferous aether? (“I’m not, though may seem it”)
Oh and by light I mean a photon, it’s too early.
1. Light
2. Strong Atomic Force
3. The sun
1. light
2. strong nuclear force
3. the sun
1. Light / photon
2. Strong nuclear force
3. A pulsar
1. A tachyon
2. ?
3. Pulsar fo shure.
Either Peter Smith or Infotangent got it, depending on how confident Peter was in his third answer :)
Woo! (sort of!)
Thanks Zach! You’ll have to do more!
1. A man with PE
2. The light on the garage my roommate always leaves on
3. The light atop the TARDIS
I’m pretty sure that the TARDIS light is purely for “hey idiot don’t get near me”. I don’t think it has any real purpose.
Feel free to prove me wrong, it’s late at night and I need sleep.
i was gonna say Dr. Phil
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I’m slightly confused about the 2nd one.
I understand the first line gives a big clue that the answer is the Strong Nuclear force. But then these lines makes it confusing:
“And thanks to me, the sky is lit
At night, at least a little bit”
What does the strong nuclear force have to do with this? Apart from keeping the particles together and forming atoms to allow for anything to occur, does the strong nuclear force add something else on its own? Otherwise it seems you could have said anything is possible thanks to the strong nuclear force.
Or is this line more in reference to the color charges between the quarks?
The strong nuclear force is responsible for nuclear fusion in our sun and other stars, thus lighting up the sky.
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Requirements
Ah I see now. Thanks!
Whatever happened to the mathroom blog?
It’ll return in some form, but that’s a secret for now!
Whatever happened to Hoom?
My life got less dramatic…
But, a lot of the ideas from hoom (long comics, narrating a story, talking personally to the reader) got rolled into SMBC. So, it looks on in spirit.
Light, Light, Light.