catching a lion in the desert
Searching through old archives, I ran into this list that someone compiled. There are many more, but these are a good start.
How does a mathematician catch a lion in the desert?
He builds a cage, lock himself in it, then performs an inversion transformation to define the desert and all it's contents to be in the cage.
How else can a mathematician catch a lion in the desert?
He can approximate the lion as a topological doughnut (a solid with a hole [the digestive tract]), then translate the desert into a four-dimensional space, resulting in the ability to tie a knot in the lion by a continuous topological deformation, leaving it helpless to escape.
How else can a mathematician catch a lion in the desert?
He can approximate the desert as a plane, then hijack the plane.
How does a theoretical physicist catch a lion in the desert?
He builds a cage, locks it securely. As there is a finite probability that any wave-particle, including the lion, will be at any point in space at any point in time, he merely has to wait.
How does a mathematician catch a lion in the desert?
He builds a cage, lock himself in it, then performs an inversion transformation to define the desert and all it's contents to be in the cage.
How else can a mathematician catch a lion in the desert?
He can approximate the lion as a topological doughnut (a solid with a hole [the digestive tract]), then translate the desert into a four-dimensional space, resulting in the ability to tie a knot in the lion by a continuous topological deformation, leaving it helpless to escape.
How else can a mathematician catch a lion in the desert?
He can approximate the desert as a plane, then hijack the plane.
How does a theoretical physicist catch a lion in the desert?
He builds a cage, locks it securely. As there is a finite probability that any wave-particle, including the lion, will be at any point in space at any point in time, he merely has to wait.