Kittens teach physics

15 thoughts on “Kittens teach physics”

1. Newton’s cat’s cradle!

   V cool.

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2. “at least they demonstrate an important principle” = When in doubt, bite something!

3. V. cute

   I can see the headline: “Kitties chew on Newton’s balls while Madonna & Child look on”

4. Discovery Institute Advanced Physics Lab

5. I especially love how, after having established to their own satisfaction the basic principle the apparatus is designed to illustrate, they then proceed to investigate further properties, such as the tensile and shear strength of the thread. Those’re some hard-core researchers, there!

   b&

6. The laws of physics are nothing when confronted by a set of pointy teef.

7. Too funny. They’re like, why are these metal mice not running away from us??

8. The film version (though not the original play) of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” has R&J examining this device and failing to draw the appropriate conclusions as they do with other simple physics experiments including a paper airplane.

9. They also demonstrate FRUSTRATION when things don’t happen as intended and go to work on alternative measures and innovation…….Fun.

10. Everyone’s talking about the bite test but nobody’s mentioned the equally important “can I get inside this” test.

11. I suspect the physical principle they are working on is:

    It movez .·. It iz mouz

12. Purrfection through replication

13. Kitteh cradl fissixz:

    – “For each bite there is an equal bite back.”
    – “The total running of rats is conserved.”

14. How would they handle the metronome synchronising test?

    1. This metronome synchronizing test?

       http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/32-asynchronous-metronomes-fall-into-line/

       It would almost certainly resemble this:

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKYvr_a_ak

       Cheers,

       b&

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