Editing Talk:2358: Gravitational Wave Pulsars

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This actually an old joke "what is the secret of comedy"
[[User:Steve|Steve]] ([[User talk:Steve|talk]]) 07:58, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

This one isn't very funny..
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.190|162.158.75.190]] 19:37, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
::It's not topical either. I sense filler. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.100|162.158.186.100]] 19:49, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
::::Perhaps not as topical as US Presidential Elections or COVID-19, but there have been at least two research papers on gravity wave phenomena in the past two weeks, I’ve been seeing YouTube vids about it pop up in my feed and various people tweeting about it.  See the research paper, "GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Coalescence with a Total Mass of 150 Solar Masses," which was published in Physical Review Letters on September 2, 2020 and The research paper, "Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 Solar Mass Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521," published in Astrophysical Journal Letters on September 2, 2020. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]] 05:13, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
::Unless there's a hidden joke that I don't get [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.176|172.68.141.176]] 20:05, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
::There's a common joke that roughly goes "What is the secret to a good joke timing?" (said all at once)

Context is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04496
::Related to this? [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW190521 GW190521 Wiki]] [[User:OhFFS|OhFFS]] ([[User talk:OhFFS|talk]]) 21:13, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
::No, the gravitational waves have different periods than what LIGO/Virgo detects, and therefore the astrophysical sources are different. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.200|162.158.75.200]] 21:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

This is a reference to the (possibly apocryphal) Johnny Carson interview of a comedian (possibly Jerry Lewis, possibly Buddy Hackett):
* Comedian: Go ahead: ask me what is the secret of comedy.
* Carson: OK, what is the...
* Comedian: TIMING!
I've looked for the source, and all I can find are retellings of retellings (e.g. https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/08/the-immortal-timing-of-elmore-leonard.html ). -- [[User:Dtgriscom|Dtgriscom]] ([[User talk:Dtgriscom|talk]]) 02:35, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

I think the title text is referring to the saying I’m realty that the most important things to consider when buying a house are “location, location, location.” (https://www.realestateabc.com/insights/location.html)
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.5|108.162.238.5]] 03:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
:Which is good to know, but leaves some doubt over momentum, momentum and momentum. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.197|162.158.158.197]] 08:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

The use of curly braces around {location, location, location} might also be a joke.
"...using curly braces refers to the character vector that is stored within the string."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/curly-brace
I don't understand enough about the topic to be sure. ---- JM
::The link points to a specific syntax for one programming language, namely MATLAB.  Other languages use {...}, of course, but equally common is (...) or [...].  But importantly it is not a standard math/physics/astronomy notation.  In a paper, unless otherwise specified, (x, y, z) is a triple of numbers making a vector whereas {x, y, z} is the set containing x, y, z and nothing else, which might therefore have 1, 2 or 3 elements.  If there’s any joke here, it’s that {location, location, location} = {location}.

I've forgotten 110% of what I learned about math, but I thought {length, length, length} (or, equivalently, angle and magnitude) were equally important to a vector in 3-space. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.62.160|172.69.62.160]] 18:22, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
:([Coming in three+ years later] A triplet like (1,2,3) can be treated as a vector in 3-space. Consider it the termination of a line segment extending out from the origin (0,0,0). You now have a direction (the way the segment points) and a magnitude (its length)--that is, a vector. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:41, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

I don't understand enough about the topic to be sure. ---- breadontoast
she also delivers a demonstration on the detection method as a passing gravitational wave will lead to the Radiobursts being slightly out of sync to their expected timing

There is also another joke that vectors only encode direction not location. To get a location a vector must be applied to another location e.g. a vector relative to the origin.

This comic is also reminiscent of this knock-knock joke: "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Interrupting cow." "Interrupting co--" "MOO!" [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.92|108.162.219.92]] 13:11, 18 September 2020 (UTC) delete-if-unhelpful