Web Directory

» Angels on a Pin
   The possibly true story of the many possible ways of determining the height of a building using only a barometer.
   http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm

» BBspot - Half-Life 2 Physics Engine Contains Grand Unified Theory
   Physicists at Cornel-Putnam University (CPU) confirmed yesterday the Holy Grail of Physics, the Grand Unified Theory, is contained in the Half-Life 2 source code.
   http://bbspot.com/News/2003/12/valve_unified_theory.html

» BBspot - Overclocker Creates Rift in Space-Time Continuum
   A rift in the space-time continuum was created when overclocker Jamie Aperman ran a 750 MHz Coppermine Pentium III at 1.6 GHz. It appears that the CPU was operating so fast that it began to execute instructions before they arrived.
   http://bbspot.com/News/2000/5/clock_rift.html

» Buttered Cat
   Stick a buttered piece of bread on the back of a cat, then throw the cat out a window. The result may surprise you.
   http://www.flippyscatpage.com/butteredcat.html

» Einstein, Heisenberg, Tipler
   A story of interviews between these men and God, intended to determine if they should enter Heaven.
   http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/eht.html

» Evil Squirrels and Physicists
   Squirrels are known to hate mankind. First they got the midgets, now they eat the physicists.
   http://photoemission.tripod.com/evilsquirrel/

» First Atomic Clock Wristwatch
   A HP 5071A Cesium Beam Primary Frequency Reference can in fact be used as a wrist watch. You have a choice of stainless steel or adjustable nylon band.
   http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

» Love and Tensor Algebra
   A poem by Stanislaw Lem
   http://www.ee.duke.edu/~wrankin/misc/tensor.html

» Physics Limericks
   Poems from the contests sponsored by the American Physical Society.
   http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/features/limericks/

» Physics Song Book
   New physics lyrics to classic tunes.
   http://www.dctech.com/physics/humor/songs.php

» PhysicsSongs.org
   Songs, and links to sites with more of them.
   http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/

» Politically Correct Physics
   Revised physics course descriptions.
   http://www.jefflindsay.com/PCPhysics.shtml

» QuarkDance.org!
   Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Particle Data Group welcomes you to see its Quark Dance website which is a gateway to many exciting physics websites.
   http://pdg.lbl.gov/quarkdance/

» SatireWire - Scientist Splits Atom, Finds Toy Prize Inside
   A Princeton physicist recently split an atom of hydrogen and found a toy prize inside, the journal Science reported in its June issue. [Contains fictitious information.]
   http://www.satirewire.com/news/may02/prizes.shtml

» Sokal's Hoax
   "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity".
   http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

» Super G-String Field Theory
   A sequel to the original paper on g-string theory.
   http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/sgsft.html

» The Non Abelian Names of God
   A scientific paper parody which includes "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings","The Stages of a Theory" and a dictionary of common phrases.
   http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/nonabel.html

» The Physics Crackpot Index
   A fun site which outlines how you can tell if a new theory is really from a crackpot.
   http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

» The Super G-String
   A parody of modern string theories written in the form of a research paper.
   http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/sgs.html

» Theological Thermodynamics
   This document reproduces two classics of science parody/humor. The first applies the physics of thermodynamics to conclude that Heaven is hotter than Hell. The second is a response which combines Biblical evidence with thermodynamics to argue that, while
   http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm