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Let us Consider a Spherical Horse in a Vacuum

Tuesday, 21. June 2005, 08:08:00

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Note: This entry is based on a joke well known in Russia; here is the English version of it that I could find.

  • A spherical horse has absolutely black body.
  • A spherical horse breathes ideal gas.
  • The neighing of a spherical horse is a simple harmonic and spreads without dispersion.
  • A spherical horse pastures in uniform fields.
  • When a spherical horse prances, its trajectory is parabolic.
  • The hooves of a spherical horse come into elastic collisions with a flat horizontal surface.
  • A spherical horse has a non-zero probability to get out of a potential well it has fallen into.
  • Mounting a spherical horse involves finding the saddle point. The resistance of the horse in this case is negligible.
  • Looking from an infinitely remote stand, a spherical horse appears as a point mass.
  • You can't comb the hair on a spherical horse.
UPDATE: The ideas have been used for an article in the Russian edition of Uncyclopedia.

По-русски: «На сегодняшний день у нас есть только модель победы сферического коня в вакууме»

First in EnglishYou are in a Maze of Twenty Little Passages

Comments

Anonymous 2. April 2008, 13:23

Anonymous writes:

I got nothing out of this>> What is a spherical horse?

Alexey Feldgendler 2. April 2008, 14:32

A spherical horse is a closed and bounded horse in a metric space in which every point of the boundary is equidistant from a specific center point.

Anonymous 25. August 2008, 18:41

jilmavi writes:

Sometimes I do wish my horse were spherical rather than blob-shaped.

Alexey Feldgendler 25. August 2008, 23:03

Blob-shaped meet less resistance of the mediumm.

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