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In article <1992Dec15.163430.5156@ulrik.uio.no> jarleb@athena.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann) writes:

> This is a (rather amusing IMHO) suggestion for exams:
> Please read it, I had a hard time writing it in :-)
> 
> (BTW it's taken from H. J. Limpkin. Journal of Irreproducible 
> Results 7. 12 (1958) and NABLADET March 1991)

Harry Lipkin, actually: one of the great jokers of theoretical
physics.  (He does serious physics too; he's rather good at it...)  I
recently saw another spoof by him: a proposal to measure the mass of
the neutrino by threshold studies of p pbar -> nu nubar, using a
liquid uranium calorimeter.

You can find this article in (where else?) _A Random Walk in Science_;
it has a few other good Harry Lipkin pieces in there too.  One of my
favorites is "A high-energy physics coloring book"; I really ought to
put that one up in my office.  "These are experimental points in a
Feynman diagram.  Connect them with the appropriate solid, dashed, and
wavy lines.  Color it in a gauge-invariant way."
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