The Underpants of Science

The Underpants of Science Museum opens on March 31st, 2006 in the lobby of UT-Austin's Physics-Math-Astronomy building. This display of entirely authentic undergarments from the great figures of Math and Science is intended to honor those who have illuminated our understanding of the universe, and has nothing to do with Saturday's date.

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Friday, March 31, 2006

The Museum is Up!

The Museum is up. Big thanks to Agents Penguin and Habanero, who provided crucial art&crafts skill at just the right time. Everything got installed except the biography plaques, which may appear at some later point. We got the introductory plaques up right as the first staff began to arrive, so we don't have any photos yet, although we took some video during installation. Hopefully we can come back later and snag some photos -- they'll be posted as soon as possible for the enjoyment of out-of-town visitors.

Here's the list of Famous Underpants in Science and Math:

Descartes Various Graphs on Cartesian Coordinate Underpants
Moebius One-Sided whitey tighties (half-twist in the leghole)
Klein Klein Bottle Long Undies (reconnects thru crotch)
Grace Hopper Computer Bugs are devouring her undies
Alan Turing Whitey Tighties form a Turing Machine r/w head<
Ada Lovelace Lacey
Curie Beta-ray proof (tinfoil with Radiation warnings)
Schrodinger Schroedinger box: Boxers? Briefs? A superposition of both!
Oppenheimer A fission event erupts from the back
Townes Multiple Burnt Holes from stray laser impacts
Bloch A literal Band Gap
Einstein Big Balls
Top Quark Team A box of 600 undies, enough for the whole collaboration.
EPR Paradox Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen's Entangled Undies
Feynman None, Baby!
Weinberg Apparently our own Steven Weinberg rocks the Thong
Cornell Penguin Boxers, as befits the Low-Temperature pioneer


These few, unfortunately, did not go up:

Wu Parity-reversed (bra on bottom, panties on top)
Rosie Franklin Were stolen by Watson
Farnsworth Cartoon Boxers, filled with Good News
Wheeler Boxers being sucked into a black hole
Newton Apple undies
Avogadro Very small undies
Roentgen X-Ray undies
Euler Seams of the Whitey Tighties demonstrate F-E+V=2
Brewster Undies worn at 57° angle

Any other good ones we forgot? Let us know in the comments.

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