Name: Ingenious

Author: Martin Zvolenský, Prešov

(public rating: 258 points, professionals rating: 17 points)

- What are you doing?

- I am measuring the volume of the motor

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Authors' commentary
I would like to show a practical use of the Archimedes' law. The joke is based on mixing up the volume of the motor and the volume of the car. In Sharish (an Easter Slovak dialect) “motor“ means “ car”. The volume of a car we can find out through dipping it into the water, but the volume of the motor is measured in another way. The car will  no longer function  after its  bath in the pool.

Name: Amazing!

Author: Martin Zvolenský, Prešov

(public rating: 243 points, professionals rating: 11 points)

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Authors' commentary
The picture describe well known magnetic force.

I have exaggerated on the purpose to point out on some extremes in young fashion. Some boys are able to decorate themselves by 1 kilo of metal.

Name: Apple don't fall far from the three...

Author: Martin Zvolenský, Prešov

(public rating: 181 points, professionals rating: 5 points)

- I still don’t understand it.

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Authors' commentary
In this joke I would like to espose the story (fictional) about Isaac Newton.
One apple fells down, on Newton’s head, when he was sitting under the apple three. And Newton find out that al bodies are attracted by gravitational force of the Earth.

Name: Swallows

Author: Monika Fábryová, ZŠ a MŠ Diviaky nad Nitricou

(public rating: 155 points, professionals rating: 9 points)

It is winter? Your wire is already dedreased
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Authors' commentary
We are only learning what swallows have known for ages...

 

Name: In the club of voiceless scientists

Author: Monika Fábryová, ZŠ a MŠ Diviaky nad Nitricou

(public rating: 154 points, professionals rating: 4 points)

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Komentár
we usually use words "I am enlightened". Now I know, what does it mean.

Name: The mistake

Authors: Peter Wetzler, Beáta Labiková, Gymnázium Grösslingová 18, Bratislava

(public rating: 66 bodov, professionals rating: 16 points)

Einstein: God does not play at dice…

-  I rise the betting, boys!

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Authors' commentary
When Einstein made his famous assertion, he was in mistaken. Reality is different…

Name: And yet, it moves...!

Author: Beáta Labiková, Gymnázium Grösslingová 18, Bratislava

(public rating: 83 points, professionals rating: 7 points)

Man: But it does move! (E pur si muove)
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Authors' commentary
It is better to discover it with the help of physics and not alcohol.

Name: Resistor

Author: Peter Sálus, Ružomberok

(public rating: 68 points, professionals rating: 4 point)

Which of these bioresistors is larger?

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Authors' commentary
Ohms' law

Name: Do not disturb my rings

Authors: Peter Wetzler, Beáta Labiková, Gymnázium Grösslingová 18, Bratislava

(public rating: 59 points, professionals rating: 10 bodov)

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Authors' commentary
If you want to discover something you should do a lot of sport.

Name: Einsteins' sausage dog

Author: Michal Jedinák, Dlhá nad Oravou

(public rating: 87 points, professioanls rating: 9 points)

Einsteins' sausage dog
...before the length contraction experiment...
...during the experiment (Attention the wall !)...
...after the experiment.

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Authors' commentary
Many discoveries were made thanks to animals, but people are silent about this because of their vanity. It is said that Edisons' inventions originated in the head of his dog. Now it is time to tell people the truth about Einsteins' sausage dog.   :o)

Name: Galileo

Author: Martin Weber, Bratislava

(public rating: 79 points, professionals rating: 7 points)

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Authors' commentary
How are the famous quotations created.

 

Name: Schrödinger's cat

Authors: Jana Guttenová, Július Parulek, Bratislava

(public rating: 200 points, professionals rating: 18 bodov)

To be AND not to be !?
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Authors' commentary
The joke shows the basis of quantum mechanics. It derives from the well known Schrödingers' cat paradox. There is a cat enclosed in the steel box with Geigers' tube and the balloon filled with a toxic gas. There is one radioactive atom with a one hour half-life; the decay of which will initiate the indicator needle.  This will perforate the balloon and gas will kill the cat. After one hour- is the cat dead or alive?  I.e., the system is in a superposition state dead and alive, because without looking into the box we can not judge whether the atom has already decayed or not.  The formalism of quantum mechanics is not in contradiction with experiment.  If we open the box after one hour, when we shall find the cat alive with a probability of 1/2. The point of the joke is that the cat asks a question similar to the famous question of Hamlet, “To be OR not to be?” Perhaps its answer  can be a solution of Hamlets' uncertainty.

Name: Physicists' morning

Author: Hana Hluchá, Trnava

(public rating: 48 points, professionals rating: 14 points)

-It’s always so hard to get up...
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