I spend a lot more time on the Physics Forums (www.physicsforums.com) than I do here, but other than copying over some of the better humor posts from there to here (and here to there) I have never mixed the two.
SO ... I have no idea if anyone here will be interested in this but I found it just delightfully mind-blowing and had to share it. The first video shows WHAT it is and introduces the fact that there is this TOTALLY unexpected relationship between some blocks banging into each other and the value of pi.
(just over 5 minutes)
The follow-on video explains the math in detail, and while it’s the one that gave me more pleasure than anything I’ve seen on the internet in years. I don’t particularly recommend it unless you're really into math. Just consider the fact presented in the first video and marvel at how math and physics sometimes come together in amazingly unexpected ways.
(Part 2 - 15 minutes)
There is a 3rd part to the series, but it is an even more esoteric delving into the unexpected relationships between math and physics that evolve from this "simple" exercise, so even less is it something I would recommend to you since it gets even deeper into math and I put it here just for completeness sake.
(Part 3 - 14+ minutes)
SO ... I have no idea if anyone here will be interested in this but I found it just delightfully mind-blowing and had to share it. The first video shows WHAT it is and introduces the fact that there is this TOTALLY unexpected relationship between some blocks banging into each other and the value of pi.
The follow-on video explains the math in detail, and while it’s the one that gave me more pleasure than anything I’ve seen on the internet in years. I don’t particularly recommend it unless you're really into math. Just consider the fact presented in the first video and marvel at how math and physics sometimes come together in amazingly unexpected ways.
There is a 3rd part to the series, but it is an even more esoteric delving into the unexpected relationships between math and physics that evolve from this "simple" exercise, so even less is it something I would recommend to you since it gets even deeper into math and I put it here just for completeness sake.