Holy boxes, Batman!
We're expecting a very large shipment of equipment at work this week. On the order of 60 boxes, to be followed by another 50 within a week after that. I come into worm this morning and my boss tells me, "Yeah, I got an e-mail. They've shipped. Two day shipping." So they'll be here, oh, tomorrow.
He's made a very careful diagram of how the boxes will fit in the small amount of space we have. They'll be packed in so tightly, I'm not sure how we'll get them out again. Needless to say, we spent several hours this morning just clearing the areas he's allotted for this project.
This afternoon, I told him, "You know, when we get all these boxes squeezed in so densely and they spontaneously implode and leave a small singularity in the back of your office . . . I'm fairly sure our business insurance doesn't cover that."
He agreed that this was probably so, and ventured so far as to say that he imagined this would coincide with the fly-by of a ship powered by the infinite improbability drive. At which time, we would be left with a bowl of rather confused petunias.
Of course. The sperm whale having been drawn into the singularity.
He's made a very careful diagram of how the boxes will fit in the small amount of space we have. They'll be packed in so tightly, I'm not sure how we'll get them out again. Needless to say, we spent several hours this morning just clearing the areas he's allotted for this project.
This afternoon, I told him, "You know, when we get all these boxes squeezed in so densely and they spontaneously implode and leave a small singularity in the back of your office . . . I'm fairly sure our business insurance doesn't cover that."
He agreed that this was probably so, and ventured so far as to say that he imagined this would coincide with the fly-by of a ship powered by the infinite improbability drive. At which time, we would be left with a bowl of rather confused petunias.
Of course. The sperm whale having been drawn into the singularity.
posted by Journey | 7:08 PM
6 Comments:
Hmmmm, a "small singularity." Isn't that kind of redundant?...;) Either way, a real problem in the typical office environment.
--durangodave
Not this time. I'm using defintion 4, you see: "4 : a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole."
Unless, of course, we're considering that the singularity is the infinitesimal point at he very center of any given black hole. In which case, I apologize for my imprecision and re-specify that to be a "small black hole"--its singularity having devoured relatively little mass (for all the space-consuming boxes). I'm actually not sure which interpretation is correct.
Well, I stand (sit actually) partially corrected, in that a singularity may be a point, or a region. I had till now understood it to be only a point, such as the theoretical big-bang singularity, or the one central to a non-rotating black hole. But, a "region"? Hadn't considered that before. Just keep it far away from me, please.
--durangodave
Note to self: Keep the black holes in Arizona. Right. ;)
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