Also: The joke itself isn't *that* complicated. The only things you need to know are that Heisenberg is famous for the Uncertainty Principle (you don't even need to know what it is, beyond that it deals with probabilities and the physical impossibility of certainty), Godel is a logician who stressed the need for proofs and did a lot of work on proving whether or not a proof was possible, and Chomsky is a bit of an abrasive dick.
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Date: 2010-03-18 01:07 pm (UTC)