Can Opening for the Engineer, Physicist & Mathematician
As an experiment, an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are placed in
separate rooms and left with a can of food, but no can opener. A day later, the
rooms are opened, one-by-one.
In the first room, the engineer is snoring, with a battered, opened and emptied
can. When asked, he explains that when he got hungry, he beat the can to its
failure point.
In the second room, the physicist is seen mouthing equations, with a can popped
open beside him. When asked, he explains that when he got hungry, he examined
the stress points of the can, applied pressure, and