Friday, April 11, 2014

Fermicycle


Did you know …


That the physicist Enrico Fermi once accused a neighbor of stealing his bicycle? It’s true! Fermi spent the better part of two weeks attempting to steal one of the neighbor’s bicycles in retaliation, and he kept the neighbor’s poor family up every night by hiring a polka band to play on their yard.

And guess what! The bicycle was in his shed the whole time, hiding behind a rubber dinghy! Even after discovering the missing bike, however, Fermi chopped down a fully grown elm tree in his yard so that it fell on top of the neighbor’s garage, and then he set the entire mess on fire. Enrico loved a good joke.

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