A cop pulls over a driver for running a red light.
The driver explained that due to blue shift the red light looked green to him.
The cop accepted the explanation, did a couple of mental calculations and issued the driver a $500,000,000 ticket for speeding at a good fraction of the speed of light on a public road.
(Told by one of my physics professors to a class many years ago)
I loved this poem, but then it shifted.
A cop pulls over a driver for running a red light.
The driver explained that due to blue shift the red light looked green to him.
The cop accepted the explanation, did a couple of mental calculations and issued the driver a $500,000,000 ticket for speeding at a good fraction of the speed of light on a public road.
(Told by one of my physics professors to a class many years ago)
Here’s another one, equally nerdy:
And for a different category of nerdiness,
