- CelloMike ( @Mwallerby@startrek.website ) English56•25 days ago
- Björn Tantau ( @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ) English44•25 days ago
- rockerface 🇺🇦 ( @rockerface@lemm.ee ) English6•25 days ago
This is glorious
- RobotToaster ( @RobotToaster@mander.xyz ) English53•25 days ago
See also, the Pauli effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
The Pauli effect or Pauli’s device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.
An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. James Franck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure.
R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli’s entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect
- Kowowow ( @Kowowow@lemmy.ca ) English16•25 days ago
Thought emporium said that microbiologists are the most super stitisous and that if it took sacrificing a goat to get better results they would
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) English7•25 days ago
isn’t that what fetal bovine serum is for?
- Catoblepas ( @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•25 days ago
Oh man, do you think spilling some FBS once is what cursed me? I think that might be what cursed me.
- AnarchistArtificer ( @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ) English10•24 days ago
My PI: “Oh, we don’t use that microcentrifuge, it will ruin your results” Me: “Oh damn, how long has it been broken for?” PI: "No, it’s not broken. It’s cursed "
I thought this was just exasperated hyperbole, but nah, there’s a lot of superstition here.
- qjkxbmwvz ( @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ) English9•25 days ago
Whatever you do, do not touch that one BNC cable. Just trust me on this.
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English2•19 days ago
RF isn’t magic. It is awfully finicky though, so don’t touch the BNC cable
- captain_oni ( @captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•25 days ago
Either that or the lab equipment is infused with the souls of children.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English1•24 days ago
Our magical thinking is going to pay off when we finally discover magic’s real.
It’s gonna happen… eventually
After all, any science that is differentiable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.