Any good jokes ... ?

[postman]

I don't understand it?

It might be my stupid sense of humour but i see it as like a baggage carousel or one of those game show belts where prizes go infront of you.

 

[Profpointy]

I don't understand it?

Ooo, go on then. Doppler shift of light for receding and nearing object

 

[Chris S]

Ooo, go on then. Doppler shift of light for receding and nearing object

Definitely a joke for the physicists among us.

 

[roadrash]

I don't understand it?

nor do I

 

[Profpointy]

Nope don’t get it.

I don’t get the horse and donkey one either.

Just like a train whistle is higher pitched (increase frequency) coming towards you and lower pitched when receding.

Distant galaxies have their light "redshifted" ie they look redder than they should which indicates they are rushing away from us - which indicates the universe is expanding and suggests the original "big bang" at the beginning of the universe. Red light is low frequency and blue is higher frequency so blueshifted stars are coming towards us.

(technically expansion of the universe is subtly different from doppler shift but let's not get into that here)

 

[JtB]

Just like a train whistle is higher pitched (increase frequency) coming towards you and lower pitched when receding.

Distant galaxies have their light "redshifted" ie they look redder than they should which indicates they are rushing away from us - which indicates the universe is expanding and suggests the original "big bang" at the beginning of the universe. Red light is low frequency and blue is higher frequency so blueshifted stars are coming towards us.

(technically expansion of the universe is subtly different from doppler shift but let's not get into that here)

When I saw it I thought maybe it’s “doppler related” but I still don’t get the “joke” aspect.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

When I saw it I thought maybe it’s “doppler related” but I still don’t get the “joke” aspect.

Yep some Doppler there but what I don't get from a physics perspective is why the car is first short, then long. That's not relativity as I understand it.
As far as the joke element - is there one?

 

[kynikos]

Reminds me of the guy in front of the beak for running a red light.
Guy claimed the Doppler effect had made the red light appear green.
Judge dismissed the case...
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...and fined him for speeding.

 

[EltonFrog]

Just like a train whistle is higher pitched (increase frequency) coming towards you and lower pitched when receding.

Distant galaxies have their light "redshifted" ie they look redder than they should which indicates they are rushing away from us - which indicates the universe is expanding and suggests the original "big bang" at the beginning of the universe. Red light is low frequency and blue is higher frequency so blueshifted stars are coming towards us.

(technically expansion of the universe is subtly different from doppler shift but let's not get into that here)

Thank you for the explanation, I read all the words, I understood them all, I even got them in the correct order, but I still have no idea what you said.

 

[Littgull]

I don’t get this one either.

You would need to be a football fan (especially European football) to get the joke. Juventus are a top Italian club who play in striped shirts the same colours as a zebra.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Just like a train whistle is higher pitched (increase frequency) coming towards you and lower pitched when receding.

Distant galaxies have their light "redshifted" ie they look redder than they should which indicates they are rushing away from us - which indicates the universe is expanding and suggests the original "big bang" at the beginning of the universe. Red light is low frequency and blue is higher frequency so blueshifted stars are coming towards us.

(technically expansion of the universe is subtly different from doppler shift but let's not get into that here)

It's not a milky way, it's a galaxy far, far away.

 

[bruce1530]

You would need to be a football fan (especially European football) to get the joke. Juventus are a top Italian club who play in striped shirts the same colours as a zebra.

I have heard the same joke where the punchline was “Newcastle United”.
and “St Mirren”.

 

[Chris S]

My wife is half French. She only shaves one armpit.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I’ve just rang the RSPCA hotline to tell them I’ve found a suitcase full of hedgehogs by the side of the road...
“Are they moving?!” Asked the Operator
“I’m not sure” I replied, “But that would explain the suitcase!”

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I've just been reading that, by law, you have to turn your headlights on when it's raining in Sweden. And I'm thinking, "Who's going to let me know when it's raining in Sweden?"