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 (DIR) Post #9ypaQLXSj5VDGICC9Y by CarlMuckenhoupt@mastodon.social
       2020-09-04T23:02:04Z
       
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       The "spherical cow" joke reads very differently to physicists than to non-physicists. To a physicist, it's a joke about the simplifying assumptions they make in order to make problems in physics more tractable, and how absurd they would be applied to any other context. To non-physicists, it's a joke about how stupid physicists are.