Italian physicists can’t decide whether neutrinos travelled faster than light. They ran into three problems with their measurements: one, because of relativity the damn neutrinos keep arriving before they left; two, the Greek holding the stopwatch keeps going on break; and three, Obama made them use neutrinos made out of algae.

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Ruben February 23, 2012 at 9:44 pm

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The only physics Obama believes in is The Law of Conversation.

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flashingscotsman February 24, 2012 at 11:29 am

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And Sharia.

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Bonfire of the Absurdities February 24, 2012 at 6:54 am

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Tax the neutrinos to slow them down! It’s not fair that they go faster than other sub-atomic particles!

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PsychoDad February 24, 2012 at 7:17 am

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That’s one thing about Mussolini, he made the neutrinos run on time.

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FormerlyDeanH February 24, 2012 at 9:44 am

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The winner!

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Alien February 24, 2012 at 10:09 am

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awesome.. always love a good mussolini timely train joke

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PsychoDad February 24, 2012 at 5:12 pm

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Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Be sure to try the soup de jour.

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J.P. Travis February 24, 2012 at 5:38 pm

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Too late. The soup de jour was served by a neutrino waiter yesterday.

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sa_rose February 24, 2012 at 9:30 pm

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But did you tip the neutrino?

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J.P. Travis February 24, 2012 at 10:11 pm

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Yeah, I left him a box with a half-dead cat in it.

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sa_rose February 25, 2012 at 2:28 pm

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Schroedingers cat!

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Kip Hooker February 25, 2012 at 8:49 pm

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Schroedinger’s cat . . . I heard that curiosity may have killed it.

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drb February 26, 2012 at 5:08 am

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satisfaction of knowing brought him back. ;)

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Notsosilent February 24, 2012 at 9:43 am

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Italian Scientists? Next You’ll tell us unicorns are real.

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Alien February 24, 2012 at 10:08 am

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meh we’re all here chatting because of a dude at CERN. Maybe he wasn’t Italian (huzzah England!), but I respect European science and its place in Western Civ

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J.P. Travis February 24, 2012 at 10:17 am

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Yeah, it’s CERN, but the end where they hold the stopwatch is controlled by Italians. I don’t know why. Maybe when they were done dividing up jobs the Italians were still standing there, so they said, “Uh, why don’t you guys go stand at the end where the particle beam collides and radiation is flying off in every direction. It’s safe, trust us. And hold this stopwatch.”

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Alien February 24, 2012 at 1:16 pm

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that IS a pretty amusing visual

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FormerlyDeanH February 24, 2012 at 11:34 am

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What kinda scientist did you think invented pizza anyway, a Deutsche? Silly NSS!

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Notsosilent February 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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I thought we invented pizza….Okay I’ll give them that ONE..

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sa_rose February 24, 2012 at 9:32 pm

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Actually , nothing in Italy’s cuisine is Italien except maybe the fish and cheese. Pasta from China, tomatoes, corn meal and potatoes from our side of the world.

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Elrond Hubbard February 24, 2012 at 10:43 am

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An empty cab pulled up…and a neutrino stepped out.

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J.P. Travis February 24, 2012 at 11:23 am

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Then the cab pulled away going backward.

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flashingscotsman February 24, 2012 at 11:31 am

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Put headlights on ‘em, and ask if they can see where they’re going.

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FormerlyDeanH February 24, 2012 at 11:35 am

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Wait, wait, wait! Empty cab? I’m getting more diffused with each comment!

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J.P. Travis February 24, 2012 at 12:04 pm

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Don’t be diffused – it’s relatively simple.

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Kip Hooker February 25, 2012 at 8:51 pm

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Not from my privileged frame of reference.

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Alien February 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm

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haha! i remembered this one and looked up (wish i made it up):

“We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here”, said the Bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.

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J.P. Travis February 24, 2012 at 5:44 pm

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Heisenberg is stopped by a traffic cop who asks: “Do you know how fast you were going?”

Heisenberg replies: “No, but I know exactly where I am.”

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Randome-11 February 25, 2012 at 2:13 am

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The thing is, the relativity theory and the big bang are no longer scientific theories but a faith, a religion without divinities.

They will come up with any and all excuses to pretend those horses are still alive, when they have been crawling with maggots years before this affair.

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ooddballz February 25, 2012 at 4:32 am

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Seems to me (and I could be remembering wrong) that Einstein once said he hoped his THEORIES were proven wrong, as it meant science was still moving ahead…..or something like that.

Tried looking up the quote, but there is a LOT of Einstein out there to go through.

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sa_rose February 25, 2012 at 2:29 pm

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At the same time he was very dismissive af anyone who challenged his theories!

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Kip Hooker February 25, 2012 at 8:42 pm

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From memory here so I am paraphrasing.

Einstein: God does not play dice with the Universe.
Bohr: Only Einstein would tell God what he could do with his dice.

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