Pattara's Quotes

If Math was the dictionary, physics is poetry

he said dictionary, not language

ok...

"Do you believe that gravity is the only force acting? You have to believe; this is church, if you don't believe, they have you out."

LOL

"If the Earth suddenly stopped, the people in space would see his giant cloud of people flying off into space. And the people on Jupiter would be like '...oh look, there goes Earth."

Roy: Mr. Pattara, so if you're nearsighted....
Mr Pattara: ...what's your terminal velocity?

"Everything you see is flipped; I'm actually on the ceiling"

"They're like siblings, they just fight, all the time"

Mr. Pattara: "If i dropped a bullet and shot a bullet at the same time, which would hit the ground first"

Student: "The one you drop because the other one would hit a wall"

Mr. Pattara: "... There is no walls, imagine we are in Saskatchewan where on a flat...blah blah blah"

Context - talking about Newton's third law, action and reaction forces. He draws a picture with a girl pulling a rope attached to a wall

Mr. Pattara: "The girl is pulling with 999.99N but its just not enough to break the rope, now if she gets her boyfriend that she is dating to help pull on the... why am i making this more interesting than it should be?"

"If you tried to push the box, the box would run you over."

For your experiments please write your hypothesis related to your problem. I have seen people writing hypothesis which do not have any connection to their problem. Lets say the problem is, "I don't know how to go home", their hypothesis would be "I bought a coke."

(when in France) "If you speak English they're all ehnn, whatever. But then you speaking French, and suddenly they're you're best buddies, and I'm like what the heck?" (or something to that effect)

"Say you have a hockey puck. Everyone know what a hockey puck is? Anyone not know what a hockey puck is?"

"So speed increases and pressure decreases. That's like saying the chicken laid an egg, the cow ran out of the barn. I don't see the correlation."
(but actually, pressure does decrease when speed increases. In case you were wondering)

Context: there's a problem involving an adult pulling two small children, who are on a sled.
"Why does it have to be an adult pulling two small children, why cant it be a child pulling two small adults?"

"There's no difference between our bodies and a piece of metal"

HAHA seriously? We're all chunks of metal walking around, did you know?