Choose your favorite frame of reference, collapse your wavefunction, and estimate your error bars -- we have a highly nontrivial day ahead of us. After years of contemplation, Talk Like a Physicist Day is finally here, as predicted. (Falsifiably!) Even the biologists are celebrating (intentionally or not), learning the joys of frictionless surfaces. And some handy reference guides have been provided. There is also a Facebook group, which I mention so that I can quote the comment left there by Phillip Fernandez:
Wow, this is like being in the ground state of a harmonic oscillator potential. It just doesn't get any lower than this.
That's the spirit! On ordinary days, you would goof off by playing video games; but today, you can goof off by simulating special relativity. (Inspired by this post, I am reliably informed.)
And today, instead of getting stuck in traffic, just tell your boss you were captured in a compression wave! I'm sure you don't need much more inspiration than that. But just to be sure...
