At the Party with the Physicists (Numa festa com físicos)

Vou tentar traduzir da versão inglesa, mas algumas coisas não funcionam com a tradução.

One day, all of the world's famous physicists decided to get together for a party (ok, there were some non-physicists too who crashed the party). Fortunately, the doorman was a grad student, and able to observe some of the guests...

Um dia, todos os físicos famosos do mundo decidiram juntar-se para uma festa (ok, alguns não físico também se juntaram à festa). Felizmente, o porteiro era uma estudante de graduação, e pode observar algumas coisas:

• Everyone gravitated toward Newton, but he just kept moving around at a constant velocity and showed no reaction.

Todos gravitaram ao redor de Newton, mas ele continuou a movimentar-se por
ali a uma velocidade constante e não mostrou nenhuma reacção.

• Einstein thought it was a relatively good time.

Einstein achou foi um momento relativamente bem passado.

• Coulomb got a real charge out of the whole thing.

Coulomb ficou com uma grande carga da coisa toda.

• Cavendish wasn't invited, but he had the balls to show up anyway.

Cavendish não tinha sido convidado, mas, no entanto, teve "bolas" (coragem) para aparecer.

• Cauchy, being the mathematician, still managed to integrate well with everyone.

Cauchy, sendo o matemático, ainda tentava se integrar bem com todo mundo.

• Thompson enjoyed the plum pudding.

• Pauli came late, but was mostly excluded from things, so he split.

Pauli chegou tarde mas foi excluido das coisas e foi-se embora (split=dividiu-se/ir-se embora)

• Pascal was under too much pressure to enjoy himself.

Pascal estava sob muita pressão para se divertir.

• Ohm spent most of the time resisting Ampere's opinions on current events.

Ohm passou a maior parte do tempo resistindo às opiniões de Ampère sobre os eventos correntes (em bom português seria eventos actuais, mas não mostrava a piada).

• Hamilton went to the buffet tables exactly once.

Hamilton foi às mesas de buffet exatamente uma vez.

• Volta thought the social had a lot of potential.

Volt pensou que a vida social tinha muito potencial.

• Hilbert was pretty spaced out for most of it.

Hilbert estava aluado a maior parte da festa.

• Heisenberg may or may not have been there.

Heisenberg pode ter estado ou não presente.

• Feynman got from the door to the buffet table by taking every possible path

Feynman foi desde a porta até ao buffet por todos os caminhos possiveis.

• The Curies were there and just glowed the whole time.

Os Curies estiverm presentes e passaram o tempo a brilhar.

• van der Waals forced himself to mingle.

• Wien radiated a colourful personality.

Wien irradiou uma personalidade colorida.

• Millikan dropped his Italian oil dressing.

• de Broglie mostly just stood in the corner and waved.

• Hollerith liked the hole idea.

Hollerith gostou de toda a ideia (hole=buraco/toda).

• Stefan and Boltzman got into some hot debates.

Stefan e Boltzman tiveram uns debates quentes.

• Everyone was attracted to Tesla's magnetic personality.

Todos ficaram atraídas pela personalidade magnética de Tesla.

• Compton was a little scatter-brained at times.

• Bohr ate too much and got atomic ache.

Bohr comeu demais e ficou com uma dor atômica.

• Watt turned out to be a powerful speaker.

Watt mostrou-se um potente orador.

• Hertz went back to the buffet table several times a minute.

Hertz voltou à mesa de buffet várias vezes por minuto (frequentemente).

• Faraday had quite a capacity for food.

Faraday tinha uma grande capacidade para comida.

• Oppenheimer got bombed.

Oppenheimer foi bombardiado.

• The microwave started radiating in the background when Penzias and Wilson showed up.

O micro-ondas começou a iradiar no fundo quando Penzias e Wilson apareceram.

• After one bite Chandrasekhar reached his limit.

Depois de uma mordida Chandrasekhar chegou ao seu limite.

• Gamow left the party early with a big bang while Hoyle stayed late in a steady state.

Gamow deixou a festa cedo com um grande estrondo (big bang) enquanto que Hoyle ficou até tarde com um estado estável.

• For Schrodinger this was more a wave function rather than a social function.

Para Schrodinger a festa foi mais uma função de onda que uma função social

• Skorucak wanted to put everybody on his web site.

Skorucak queria colocar todos no seu web site.

• Erdos was sad no epsilons were invited.

Erdos estava triste por nenhum Epsilon ter sido convidado.

• Born thought the probability of enjoying himself was pretty high.

Born pensou que a probabilidade de se divertir era muito alta.

• Instead of coming through the front door Josephson tunnelled through.

• Groucho refused to attend any party that would invite him in the first place.

• Niccolò Tartaglia kept stammering throughout the evening.

• Pauling wanted to bond with everyone.

Pauling queria-se ligar a todos.

• Keynes was keen to question the marginal utility of this party.

• Shakespeare could not decide whether to be or not to be at the party.

Shakespeare não conseguiu se decidir se devia ou não estar presente na festa.

• John Forbes Nash wanted to play a n-person zero sum game.

• Pavlov brought his dog; which promptly chased after Schrodinger's cat.

• Zeno of Elea came with two friends - Achilles and the tortoise.

• Bill Gates came to install windows.

Bill Gates chegou para instalar janelas (Windows).

• Bertrand Russell kept wondering if the cook only cooks for the guests, who cooks for the cook?

• Witten bought a present all tied up with superstrings.

 Witten trouxe um presente todo atado com super-cordas

• The food was beautifully laid out by Mendeleyev on the periodic table.

• Riemann hypothesised about who would arrive next; to which Newton retorted, ' hypotheses non fingo.'

• Chadwick was handing out neutrons free of charge.

• Everyone was amazed at Bell's inequality.

• Watson and Crick danced the Double Helix

 Watson e Crick dançaram a dupla hélice.

• While Fermat sang, 'Save the Last Theorem for me.'

Enquando  Fermat cantava, 'Guarda o último teorema para mim.'

• Maxwell's demon argued with Dawkin's friend, the selfish Gene.

• Russell and Whitehead insisted on checking the bill for completeness and consistency. Godel said it was incomplete and it can never be proved otherwise.

• Epimenides the Cretan announced that only non-Cretans spoke the truth.

Epimenides, o Cretence, anunciou que someente os não-cretences dizem a verdade.

• Rontgen saw through everybody.

Rontgen viu através de todos.

• Descartes cogitated, 'I think I am drunk. Therefore I am at the party.'

Decartes racicionou 'Penso que estou bêbado. Logo estou numa festa"