vulcandeathgrip

Great video.  Looking forward more than ever now to Ted's F# session in Toronto next month!

This one was real, right Charles?

I know what you mean, dolear.  I want one too!  It's really funny watching this a second time, knowing the punch line.  The two of them are totally deadpan up until the very end, when you can notice them both breaking up.

What makes this so great is that the first twenty minutes is a really excellent summary of quantum physics, electrodynamics and relativity.  And Garrett Lisi really exists, and that part is really exciting!   So even though its a joke, you're getting something out of it.

-- still a pretty cruel joke though, guys

Oh, what a masterfully woven frock of deception -- you guys had this emperor wearing it all the way down town!

Lead through the sublime history of physics from Newton to Einstein to some guy named Garrett Lisi (who could be the next Einstein) -- even blending in Rubic's cube and the monoids for added texture -- then over the edge of absurdity.  Before I could realise what was happening I was being told to look down -- while you switched the gravity back on!

I always suspected you guys at Microsoft were evil geniuses, but this proves it!  I'm coming up with a plan to get you for this, just as soon as I stop laughing.

Happy April 1 to you too,
Darryl