Gifts for physicists
Gift ideas for physicists
Finding a suitable present for someone who decodes the forces that hold the universe together for a living may seem like a daunting and challenging task at first glance. But you can rest assured, because we have put together the best gifts for physicists you can imagine. T-shirts with jokes that only a real physicist can understand, matching mugs for coffee between two experiments and fascinating gadgets for home use are just the tip of the gift iceberg that lies dormant on these pages.The English word [i]engineer[/i] is on Wikipedia's list of the most commonly misspelled words.Problems with that word also exist in other lang...
View full detailsDo you see real beauty where others just see numbers? Are perfect formulas and graphs your type of art? No matter where and when, do you think that...
View full detailsThis sobering choice of words by the Borg before assimilation illustrates the advantages of a collective consciousness and the knowledge shared by ...
View full detailsThis product is only available in German.
Was math your absolute favorite subject at school and you just couldn't get enough of it? If you could still solve math problems 'around the clock'...
View full detailsYou may claim to be rather reserved. But that doesn't stop you from attracting attention from friends or colleagues with fascinating gadgets from t...
View full detailsWe all dream of building our own robot. Unfortunately, it soon turns out that anything beyond a robot fighting machine for Robot Wars is a bit more...
View full detailsAs nerds, we are definitely anything but average. We love topics and things that the average person might not particularly be interested in, we alm...
View full detailsIf you ask a physicist what the most important of all sciences is, he will undoubtedly answer "physics". If you take a closer look at the sub-areas...
View full detailsThe most famous cat in the world is not an internet phenomenon, but the imaginary cat of physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961). His famous though...
View full detailsThere is power in calm. But sometimes the calm lies in things that are rather restless in themselves: the swinging of a pendulum, the roaring of th...
View full details" [i]Why can't we be together[/i] ?"... [i]because[/i] "[i]It is complex[/i]."Has this ever happen to you? You wanted to b...
View full detailsThe cake is a Pi(e)! Mathematicians with a basic knowledge of English will know: The complicated-looking formula symbols on the pie plate are prono...
View full detailsThere are people who collect stamps, some who keep more than 20 cats and others who consider arithmetic their hobby. If you have landed on this pag...
View full details“[i]You CAn’t USE a Pie chARt To DrAw A 3D RoOM” – said everyone who has not seen this t-shirt yet!Just one look at the Corner Pie Chart T-Shirt[/i...
View full detailsIt is amazing what masterpieces the human brain is capable of. Not only is it the organ that has secured our place at the top of the food chain, it...
View full detailsThe Physical Society needs your help! You may know of Schrodinger's famous thought experiment: Basically, it's the theory that in quantum physics, ...
View full detailsNever try to calculate when drunk!
Some has to say it this cleary.
If you run really, really [i]fast[/i] this green T-shirt might appear blue. And by fast we mean extra racy ;).This effect is caused by the Doppler ...
View full detailsHere we have an octopus with eight (Latin: octo) arms. No ordinary arms of course, but Pi arms! That makes this being an Octopi. :)[i](By the way, ...
View full detailsNot all numbers are perfect.
Ever since The Big Bang Theory, we know that Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment is not only an excellent way to illustrate the superposition pr...
View full detailsSometimes you don't need a beach vacation or a remote mountain hut to escape the daily grind - sometimes a small change of perspective on your own ...
View full detailsRumour has it that some mathematicians got mad when they read this sentence.
This Shirt only makes sense in German. ;)
Gandalf said it to the Balrog in 'The Lord of the Rings', while the Black Knight said it to King Arthur in 'Monty Python and the Hol...
View full detailsOver the centuries, man has explored almost every square meter of the earth in one way or another. Apart from the deep sea, we can only explore spa...
View full detailsAdmittedly, math has such a bad reputation with most people that even indoor halma and synchronized crochet seem more popular. As someone who feels...
View full detailsMany of us have heard at school - or even later in life - about the potential we would have if only we made more of an effort. It should actually b...
View full detailsThe protons are doing it right: They always stay positive. We should take them as role models :)
2 is the oddest prime number, because it's the only prime that is not odd.
Many are those that want to tempt you, entice you, and win you over to their side. But there's only one side that offers you what you really n...
View full details[i]pi[/i] * thumb = 42-thumb = 42/[i]pi[/i]-thumb = ~13.3742 is the answer to everything, as we know – life, the universe and everything. And, as ...
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