Zero Sound

One and Infinity

When asked to calculate the stability of a dinner table with four legs,a theorist rather quickly produces the results for tables with one leg and with a infinite number of legs.He spends the rest of his life in futile attempts to solve the problem for a table with an arbitrary number of legs

这个笑话是在Zagoskin的Quantum Theory of Many-body Systems:Techniques and Applications里看到的，放在第一章开头的位置（相当于卷首语了）。可见这虽然是个笑话，而且狠狠地讽刺了理论家一把，但我们还是要承认它讽刺地非常到位，因为它一针见血地概括了我们有些尴尬的处境。

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