Apt Phrases, Redolent Of Novel Yet Meaningful Sense
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| 100% | ALAN GUTH | Attended Lecture About 'Negative' Gravity -- Universe Triggered How? |
Angela Brett, after attending Guth's colloquium 'From Special Relativity to Cosmic Inflation' -- for more information, or to download the video, visit http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a054002 Names:Famous people |
| 100% | ALAN GUTH (2) | Astrophysicists Love A New Grand Unified Theory Hypothesis |
Angela Brett -- ALAN GUTH may be the expert on rapid expansion in cosmological terms, but an astrophysicist wth the letters GUT in his name is just asking for rapid expansion of a different kind. Perhaps the N word should be changed to 'Nice' or 'Neat' since I'm sure not all GUTs are welcomed, but 'New' flows better. Names:Famous people |
| 100% | BOOST | Burning Oxygen Offers Super Thrust |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | CHILL | Cool Hurriedly In Low-temperature Location |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | CMS | Complicated Magnetic System |
Angela Brett, referring to the COMPACT MUON SOLENOID. See http://cmsinfo.cern.ch for more information. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | COLLIDER | Complaining Of Lover Locked Into Discovering/Dissecting Energetic Reactions |
Angela Brett, on the song by Les Horribles Cernettes (you can download it or read the lyrics at http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/songs/collider.html) Entertainment:Music:Songs |
| 100% | COMPACT MUON SOLENOID | Counting Out Muons Presents A Challenge... Too Many Unprocessed Outputs Necessary Since Our Latest Equipment Nibbles On Incredible Dataflow |
Angela Brett (During one second of CMS running, a data volume equivalent to 10,000 Encyclopaedia Britannica will be produced, and not all of it can be recorded -- see http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/Welcome.html/CMSdocuments/CMSposters/PDF/TriDASNCo.pdf) |
| 100% | DADDY'S LAB | Don't Analyse Decay Data, You Should Love A Boy. |
Angela Brett, on the song by Les Horribles Cernettes (you can download it or read the lyrics at http://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/songs/daddy.html) Entertainment:Music:Songs |
| 100% | FIRE | Flaming Inferno Radiating Energy |
Angela Brett, demonstrating what a true acroholic would say if someone yelled 'FIRE!' in the middle of the night. |
| 100% | FIRE (2) | For Incinerating Rubbish, Etc. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | FIRE (3) | Fuel Is Rapidly Exhausted |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | FIRE (4) | Flame Ignites & Roasts Eyebrows |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FLAME | From Lighting A Match, Etc. |
Angela Brett, trying a different kind of singer after Tony came up with expansions for several of the musical kind. |
| 100% | FLAME (2) | Fire Licks A Million Eyebrows |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FREEZE | Freshly Reaped Edibles Emit Zero Energy` |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | FROZEN | Fully Rigid, Obviously Zero Energy Needed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | GRAVITY | Ground's Rushing And Velocity Is Terminal, Yikes! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation:Parachuting |
| 100% | GYROSCOPE | Generates Year-Round Output. Spins Constantly Once Properly Established |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | GYROSCOPIC | Get Yours! Rotates Omnidirectionally So Centre Of Positition Is Constant. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GYROSTABILIZER | God! You're Rolling Over! Stop That! Aircraft Begins Inclining, Luckily Implement Zeroes Endangering Rotation. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HAVE AN EFFECT | Heaviness And Vectors - Every Action Necessarily Effects Further Forces, Eternally Changing Things |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | HEAT LOSS | Home's Entrances Are The Largest Offenders - Squandering Sultriness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings |
| 100% | HOLOGRAPHY | Harnessing One's Laser, One Generates Really Artistic, Pleasing Holograms, Yes? |
Sean Lamb Art & Literature |
| 100% | HOT | Heightening Of Thermoactivity |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | IMPACT | I Might Perform A Crash Test |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | INERT | It's Not Especially Readily Transported |
Angela Brett |
| 80% | KITE | Key Is Tied to End |
Roger Williams - referencing the lightning experiment of Ben Franklin. History |
| 100% | KYMOGRAPH | Kilohertz You May Observe Graphically, Record Actual Phonemes, Hopefully. |
Angela Brett, hoping to get the last K entry. |
| 100% | LARGE HADRON COLLIDER | Leptons Aren't Really Good Enough, Hadronic Action Duly Reveals Our Notions Correct (Or Lacking) Looking Into Denser Energy Realms |
Angela Brett -- the Large Hadron Collider is the replacement for the LEP (Large Electron Positron collider) at CERN. It will be turned on in 2007 and, by colliding hadrons rather than the lighter LEPTONS, should reveal how particles react at higher energies. |
| 83% | LASER | Light-emitting Artefact Sometimes Employs Rubies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | LENS | Light Experiences New Shaping |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LENS (2) | Lets Eyes Now See |
Roger Williams Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LIGHT | Lamp Is Generating Heat Too! |
Angela Brett Household Objects |
| 100% | LIGHT (2) | Lightbulb, If Glowing, Has This. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects |
| 100% | MAGNET | Metal's Attracted, Getting Near Electromagnetic Thingies! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | OFF MASS SHELL | Only For Fleeting Moments, As Sufficient Strength Shouldn't Have Existed. Living Large! |
Angela Brett (a particle which is 'off mass shell' has a different amount of energy from what would normally be required to produce it. Like living large off a credit card, it doesn't last very long.) |
| 100% | PHYSICS | Profession Has Young Scientists Investigating Complex Spaces |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PHYSICS (2) | Puzzling Heuristics; Your Scientific Information Contains Spuriosities |
Gavin Lambert, after Angela corrected the credit for PROTON (2) |
| 100% | PLASMA | Pyrolysis Looms As Spacecraft Meets Atmosphere |
Angela Brett, who hopes that the term 'pyrolysis' can apply to the separation of atoms into ions and electrons in plasma. Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | POTATO | Properties Of Thermochemistry Are Too Obscure! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - Angela had said that she likes refrigerated cooked potatoes because they have a similar texture, or at least temperature, to cold hardboiled eggs. Tony pointed out that the texture would vary according to the type of potato, so Angela replied that the temperature would still be similar no matter what kind of potato was used. Tony then said "I don't intend to get into a discussion about the heat-retention properties of various varieties of potato," and presented this acronym to back up his position. Food & Drink |
| 100% | POWER SOURCE | Potatoes, Oils, Wind, Eels, Rain, Sunshine Or Uranium Reactions Create Electricity |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | QUANTUM PHYSICS | Question Unasked? Answer's Not There! Unless Measured, Particle Hasn't Yet Spin - In Concurrent States. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ROCKET | Roaring Off, Carrying Keen Extra Terrestrials |
Patricia Rix Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | ROCKET (2) | Races Off Creating Kerosene Exhaust Trail |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | SCHROEDINGER'S CAT | Some Can't Handle Rebus Of Existence - Does Item Not Genuinely Exist Regardless - Sightless Condition Affects Test. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SHIMMER | Sunny Haze Implies Motion - Mirage Effect Really |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SOLID | Scientific Opinion: Light Isn't Dense. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | SONAR | Sound Out Nasties And Repasts |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 100% | SONAR (2) | Sends Out Noises, And Receives |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SPECTRUM | See Practically Every Colour Through Rays' Unusual Motif |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives:Colours |
| 100% | STRONG (2) | Stick Together: Rivet On? No, Gluon! |
Angela Brett (A gluon is a 'particle' of the strong force, which holds QUARKS together.) |
| 100% | STRONG FORCE | Sticks Together -- Reverse Of Nearness Gives Ferocity Of Reaction; Cannot Escape |
Angela Brett (The strong force gets stronger the further away the particles are, making it impossible for single quark to escape from its grouping of two or three.) |
| 100% | SUPERSONIC | Souped-Up Plane's Engines Reverberate, Sudden Objectionable Noise Is Created |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 70% | SURFACE TENSION | Sometimes, Unless Reasonable Force is Applied, it Can't Easily Trickle to Escape the Neatly Sealed Insides of an Old Numbercruncher. |
We were discussing a Mac Classic seen in a magazine which had been turned into a fishbowl (or Macquarium.) Tony suggested that perhaps the person had forgotten to seal the tiny hole next to the disk drive, and that the water could be leaking out. Angela Brett replied that it couldn't because of SURFACE TENSION. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | TRAJECTORY | The Rounded Arc Javelins Exhibit / Career Track Of Redundant Yuppie |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships Sports & Recreation |
| 100% | TEMPERATURE | Thermometer Emulating Masculine Peg Exercise Recoils After The Unit Reaches Ebullition |
Rico Leffanta Science:Meteorology |
| 100% | WARP (2) | With Abnormally Rapid Progress |
Gavin Lambert (referring to 'warp speed' in shows like Star Trek) Art & Literature Entertainment |
| 100% | WARP SPEED | Where Are Real Physics? Some Plot Elements Entail Distortion |
Gavin Lambert Art & Literature Entertainment |
| 100% | WEAK FORCE | Won't Even Alter Kinetics; Form Of Reactants Changed. Extraordinary! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | YOU ARE HOT AS HELL | Years Of Using A Radiation Emitter Has One's Temperature Absolutely Scorching, Having Endured Lamp's Lights |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who mused on what would happen if bodies stored the heat from sunbeds for a long time.... some people would boil over! Science:Biology |