{"id":3310504,"date":"2006-02-14T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2006\/02\/14\/3310504-Problem-To-Catch-a-Lion-in\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:37:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:37:49","slug":"3310504-Problem-To-Catch-a-Lion-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3310504","title":{"rendered":"Problem: To Catch a Lion in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/horsewithnobunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/3310504\/'>Review<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p> <b>Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>3 Experimental Physics Methods<\/p>\n<p>3.1 The thermodynamics method<\/p>\n<p>We construct a semi-permeable membrane which lets everything but lions pass through. This we drag across the desert.<\/p>\n<p>3.2 The atomic fission method<\/p>\n<p>We irradiate the desert with slow neutrons. The lion becomes radioactive and starts to disintegrate. Once the disintegration process is progressed far enough the lion will be unable to resist.<\/p>\n<p>3.3 The magneto-optical method<\/p>\n<p>We plant a large, lense shaped field with cat mint (nepeta cataria) such that its axis is parallel to the direction of the horizontal component of the earth&#8217;s magnetic field. We put the cage in one of the field&#8217;s foci. Throughout the desert we distribute large amounts of magnetized spinach (spinacia oleracea) which has, as everybody knows, a high iron content. The spinach is eaten by vegetarian desert inhabitants which in turn are eaten by the lions. Afterwards the lions are oriented parallel to the earth&#8217;s magnetic field and the resulting lion beam is focussed on the cage by the cat mint lense.<\/p>\n<p>[1] After Hilbert, cf. E. W. Hobson, &#8220;The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier&#8217;s Series&#8221; (1927), vol. 1, pp 456-457<br \/>\n[2] H. Seifert and W. Threlfall, &#8220;Lehrbuch der Topologie&#8221; (1934), pp 2-3<br \/>\n[3] According to the Picard theorem (W. F. Osgood, Lehrbuch der Funktionentheorie, vol 1 (1928), p 178) it is possible to catch every lion except for at most one.<br \/>\n[4] N. Wiener, &#8220;The Fourier Integral and Certain of its Applications&#8221; (1933), pp 73-74<br \/>\n[5] N. Wiener, ibid, p 89<br \/>\n[6] cf e.g. H. A. Bethe and R. F. Bacher, &#8220;Reviews of Modern Physics&#8221;, 8 (1936), pp 82-229, esp. pp 106-107<br \/>\n[7] ibid<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert. 3 Experimental Physics Methods 3.1 The thermodynamics method We construct a semi-permeable membrane which lets everything but lions pass through. This we drag across the desert. 3.2 The atomic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3310504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[400569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}