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mattbell ([personal profile] mattbell) wrote2009-01-13 08:34 pm
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A photographer with a physics problem.

The pictures are decently interesting, but the pseudo-science captions are hilarious.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13235562@N04/page3/


[livejournal.com profile] steuard  notes: Those captions aren't really what I'd call pseudoscience, but rather (apparently) actual titles of papers from the high energy theory preprint arXiv with a few words changed. (The phrases were close enough to "right" that I knew there had to be actual theoretical physicists involved somewhere. I wonder whether the photographer is one of them.)

[identity profile] steuard.livejournal.com 2009-01-14 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Well, there wasn't that much sleuthing required: one of the first things I do every day is to read all the titles and skim most of the abstracts of papers posted to that particular archive. :)

In fact, in the handful of cases I've looked at each title comes from a paper that appeared on arXiv.org (in the hep-th section) within a day or two of the photo being posted. (It's even possible that each showed up in the list on the very day the corresponding picture was posted; it's a little hard to tell.)