Thursday, 26 December 2013

Plancking

Plancking: noun. An old fad amongst young physicists where one would suspend themselves 1.61619926 × 10-35 meters above the surface of various objects around a laboratory (typically objects that are unlikely to cause any damage).  Soon after this started, there were incidents of people injuring themselves doing it. It became seen as stupid and several scientists spent hours desperately writing equations to show that they did not over-come the atomic forces necessary to get close enough to the object, disproving that they ever plancked.

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