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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You wouldn’t be able to press a gas with your foot though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I can imagine a scenario where you a gas is encased in a volume that you can reduce by stepping on it with your foot, thus pressurizing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Only under certain conditions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ok sure, but that's true for you and me as well.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Physicians: "It's all vector addition and differatials?"
Mathematicians: "Always has been."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (15 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Any change in velocity, amirite?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's this Finnish joke that doesn't translate well, about a physicist who got pulled over by police. "Uh, I guess I accelerated a bit."

Tap for spoiler(A particle accelerator is a machine that accelerates little bits. Do you get it now?)

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