Metric Appreciation Thread

[Lorizael]

Uh, I guess so?

[Dauphin]

I always misremember the FLRW metric. My cosmology professors were Robinson and Walker, and so I kept thinking it was the Robinson Walker metric.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rowan-Robinson

[Lorizael]

I only had one cosmology professor and his last name was Reynolds, which was distinct enough from Robertson that I managed not to get confused. About that, anyway.

[Provost Harrison]

Burt Reynolds?

[BeBMan]

Somebody should correct Matrix in the thread title.

[Dauphin]

I only had one cosmology professor and his last name was Reynolds, which was distinct enough from Robertson that I managed not to get confused. About that, anyway.

I'd be too busy thinking about fluid mechanics to concentrate.

[Lorizael]

My major meant the most I had to learn about fluids was, "And so we can treat these photons as if they were a gas." No pesky Reynolds numbers for me.

[N35t0r]

Fluid mechanics is the ****

[N35t0r]

We're censoring shit? seriously?

[pchang]

Converting to metric would solve global warming. Temperatures would drop by 50 degrees over night.

[Lorizael]

Except anywhere it's -40.

[Egbert]

If we change to metric all the ice caps and permafrost will melt, sea levels will rise and we will all drown.

[Dauphin]

And “mass” confusion in the US.

[Aeson]

Yah, especially when it comes to dick measuring contests. No one will know what the hell 1.5 decimeters actually means. They also will mispronounce it. Thus will be born the Imperial unit measuring unit: Dickimeters.

[Fake Boris]

PH puts his foot in the mouth... again