Another Friday Funny

Riddle me this...

[incrediBILL]

Why did the chicken cross the moebius strip?



... see if anyone knows the answer :)

[Leosghost]

It was looking for it's klein bottle?

[Leosghost]

Or looking for Schrödinger's cat ..or not

[Leosghost]

Heisenberg wasn't sure if the cat was there, or the chicken, or the klein bottle, or the moebius strip ..or not.

[lucy24]

To get to the same side. :P

[Leosghost]

Thank goodness for Lilla My.. said moomin...

[incrediBILL]

To get to the same side. :P

That's correct! :)

[Leosghost]

He still won't let you drive..

[cmendla]

incredibill - THANKS... My stress level has been insane lately.. This brought a huge smile to me.

Now, I'm got to try this out on my 16yo....

thanks

[lucy24]

I tried it on a Math Geek who I knew would get it instantly... but I've yet to figure out his counter-question:

Why did the chicken cross the two vectors?

[bhonda]

Why did the chicken cross the two vectors?

Really hope someone here figures this out...I can't!

[Leosghost]

To get to the point..

[phranque]

Why did the chicken cross the two vectors?

trying to be normal?

[lucy24]

This is going to make absolutely nobody happy, including me. The Math Geek in question admits to liking the "point" answer, but says that the Official Answer is

:: shuffling papers ::

To get the product of their magnitudes times the sine of the angle between them times the unit perpendicular forming a right-handed triple with the two factors.

Thereby providing further anecdotal evidence that mathematicians are not like you and me.

[Leosghost]

Try this on the maths geek..( who is being singularly pedantic..which if we are going to be, he could have had as the alternative, but equally valid, as they express the same thing ..answer of, "neutral/nul*" which is the mathematicians/physicists answer)....


Why did the chicken cross the streams..?


not forgetting that there exists "the mathematician joke"..which is not for here ..;)... in French it only has one *l*

[phranque]

in mathematics, "normal" is perpendicular...

[Leosghost]

Agreed..( depending on the "space"/"environment" though..in this case, "it" would appear to be "Euclidean", so "normal" would be just as valid a response as "point")... makes me wonder if "The Math Geek" is as "competent" in the subject, ( or is it merely recitation of certain parts of particular books ) as the term would tend to imply.

[lucy24]

Further discussion from Over There provides #1

Usually the riddle is asked in the form "Why did the X cross the Y and the Z?", or "What do you get when you cross a Y with a Z?", the answer being as above (but more droll when, say, Y is a banana and Z is a gorilla).

If Y or Z is "a mountain climber", there's the rejoinder, "But a mountain climber is a scalar."

And #2

as I understand it, the Chicken in question would avoid getting to either point the vector is headed for if it crosses them both, wouldn't it? Or does it cross from one vector to the other? At which the answer would make perfect sense to me.

At which point a third party stepped in and made-- haha-- pointed reference to the possibly apocryphal book review that said "This book taught me more about {blahblah} than I wanted to know."

Which has probably closed the subject of chickens and vectors, while possibly opening the subject of {blahblah}.