[math-fun] Pauli-Covid Exclusion Principle
Each filled discrete energy level must be separated from every other filled discrete energy levels by 5 unfilled energy levels. --- (Lame, I know. But it's too early in the morning...)
My virus humor is probably worse. This one is from around February 20: Q. How is February different from January? A. In January, it was okay to show up to a party with a case of Corona. And this is from last night: The COVID virus is the germ That cancelled Spring and Summer term; And if it stays and cancels Fall We might not graduate at all. On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:10 PM Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Each filled discrete energy level must be separated from every other filled discrete energy levels by 5 unfilled energy levels.
--- (Lame, I know. But it's too early in the morning...)
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Perhaps I am being too rational, but I think that COVID is more likely to catch an electron. The poem is a good start but not that easy to read. IMO, too much like prose. Here is an alternative version, roughly equivalent: These COVID, the cancelling germs, Sickened spring and summer terms. Should they plan to attend next fall, we mightn’t commence any at all. —Brad
On May 8, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
My virus humor is probably worse. This one is from around February 20:
Q. How is February different from January? A. In January, it was okay to show up to a party with a case of Corona.
And this is from last night:
The COVID virus is the germ That cancelled Spring and Summer term; And if it stays and cancels Fall We might not graduate at all.
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:10 PM Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Each filled discrete energy level must be separated from every other filled discrete energy levels by 5 unfilled energy levels.
--- (Lame, I know. But it's too early in the morning...)
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On 08/05/2020 18:23, Brad Klee wrote:
The poem is a good start but not that easy to read. IMO, too much like prose. Here is an alternative version, roughly equivalent:
These COVID, the cancelling germs, Sickened spring and summer terms. Should they plan to attend next fall, we mightn’t commence any at all.
Allan's version is much better, sorry. -- g
Just to give another example of what I call "good judgement", we could compare Alan's P1 and my P2 with a P3 from Alfred Lord Tynneson: The Dragonfly Today I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro’ crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew. In this case it's easy to say that P2 << P3, because the dragonfly makes for a much better subject than COVID, more interesting words and phrases are thrown into the mix (sapphire mail, nice!), and the meditation is deeper, see also: https://www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-the-dragonfly-by-alfred-lord-tenn... Again, I don't want to be a rude judge about this, but I'm guessing that Alan would agree P1 << P3. This decision immediately sets up an equivalence relation between P1 & P2. They are both poems that are much worse than Tennyson's "The Dragonfly". Cheers, Brad On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:56 AM Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On 08/05/2020 18:23, Brad Klee wrote:
The poem is a good start but not that easy to read. IMO, too much like prose. Here is an alternative version, roughly equivalent:
These COVID, the cancelling germs, Sickened spring and summer terms. Should they plan to attend next fall, we mightn’t commence any at all.
Allan's version is much better, sorry.
-- g
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De gustibus non est disputandum. On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:26 AM Brad Klee <bradklee@gmail.com> wrote:
Just to give another example of what I call "good judgement", we could compare Alan's P1 and my P2 with a P3 from Alfred Lord Tynneson:
The Dragonfly
Today I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro’ crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
In this case it's easy to say that P2 << P3, because the dragonfly makes for a much better subject than COVID, more interesting words and phrases are thrown into the mix (sapphire mail, nice!), and the meditation is deeper, see also:
https://www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-the-dragonfly-by-alfred-lord-tenn...
Again, I don't want to be a rude judge about this, but I'm guessing that Alan would agree P1 << P3. This decision immediately sets up an equivalence relation between P1 & P2. They are both poems that are much worse than Tennyson's "The Dragonfly".
Cheers,
Brad
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:56 AM Gareth McCaughan < gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On 08/05/2020 18:23, Brad Klee wrote:
The poem is a good start but not that easy to read. IMO, too much like prose. Here is an alternative version, roughly equivalent:
These COVID, the cancelling germs, Sickened spring and summer terms. Should they plan to attend next fall, we mightn’t commence any at all.
Allan's version is much better, sorry.
-- g
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The dispute is not about taste, it’s about etiquette! —Brad
On May 9, 2020, at 11:42 AM, Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> wrote:
De gustibus non est disputandum.
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:26 AM Brad Klee <bradklee@gmail.com> wrote:
Just to give another example of what I call "good judgement", we could compare Alan's P1 and my P2 with a P3 from Alfred Lord Tynneson:
The Dragonfly
Today I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro’ crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
In this case it's easy to say that P2 << P3, because the dragonfly makes for a much better subject than COVID, more interesting words and phrases are thrown into the mix (sapphire mail, nice!), and the meditation is deeper, see also:
https://www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-the-dragonfly-by-alfred-lord-tenn...
Again, I don't want to be a rude judge about this, but I'm guessing that Alan would agree P1 << P3. This decision immediately sets up an equivalence relation between P1 & P2. They are both poems that are much worse than Tennyson's "The Dragonfly".
Cheers,
Brad
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:56 AM Gareth McCaughan < gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On 08/05/2020 18:23, Brad Klee wrote:
The poem is a good start but not that easy to read. IMO, too much like prose. Here is an alternative version, roughly equivalent:
These COVID, the cancelling germs, Sickened spring and summer terms. Should they plan to attend next fall, we mightn’t commence any at all.
Allan's version is much better, sorry.
-- g
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On May 9, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Brad Klee <bradklee@gmail.com> wrote:
The dispute is not about taste, it’s about etiquette! —Brad
On May 9, 2020, at 11:42 AM, Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> wrote:
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Also: Q. How is May different from January? A. In January, if you walked into a bank *wearing* a mask, you might get arrested. Jim On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:51 PM Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
My virus humor is probably worse. This one is from around February 20:
Q. How is February different from January? A. In January, it was okay to show up to a party with a case of Corona.
And this is from last night:
The COVID virus is the germ That cancelled Spring and Summer term; And if it stays and cancels Fall We might not graduate at all.
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:10 PM Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Each filled discrete energy level must be separated from every other filled discrete energy levels by 5 unfilled energy levels.
--- (Lame, I know. But it's too early in the morning...)
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Thank you, Allan! If you weren’t channelling Ogden Nash (as Gareth mentions), surely it’s Piet Hein (= math + fun) and his grooks. — Mike B
On May 8, 2020, at 12:50 PM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
The COVID virus is the germ That cancelled Spring and Summer term; And if it stays and cancels Fall We might not graduate at all.
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