Viewing Thread:
"A question Professer Hawking was asked..."

Just thought it would be interesting to see possible answers. I'll post the correct one fairly soon.

"You have just made a kettle of boiling water to make a cup of tea. You want the tea to cool down to drinking temerature as quick as possible. Do you put the milk in before or after the tea?

The most important thing is reasoning.

Yus, Stephen got it right away.


Hint:

It is not to do with with convection currents.


The correct answer, beautifully phrased:


Emitime wrote:
> Tea first.
>
> If you put the milk in (which I presume would be cold?), then that
> starts to warm up due to the air temperature, which means it won't
> cool the tea down as much.
>
> Where as if you put the tea in first, that'd already have started
> cooling down from the air temperature, and the milk will still be at
> it's coldest temperature as you put it in.
>
> This all of course depends on the temperature surrounding the cup.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Asking the greatest mind on Earth questions about cups of tea.
>
> Way. To. Go.

I'd unplug all his equipment and see if he could come up with a way of getting it working again.

I can't believe i've reduced myself to trying to answer this.
You put it in before you drink it, question didn't specifically say before drinking if that makes any sense.
I now await a smart-arsed answer telling me i'm wrong.

Milk first - I remember being caught out on that question in School, I was adamant it was the other way.

I have a question for Prof. Hawking;

If you're so clever, lets see you figure out a way to win the Olympics 100m Gold.



Anyone seen Jimmy Carr's DVD? There's a tale in there about the good professor that should send anyone's respect for him rocketing.

He appeared as himself in The Simpsons and punched someone with a boxing glove on a spring that was concealed inside his amazing chair (which, incidentally, also had rotor blades).

There's all the respect you need right there.

He's an easy target.













because he can't move

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> He appeared as himself in The Simpsons and punched someone with a
> boxing glove on a spring that was concealed inside his amazing chair
> (which, incidentally, also had rotor blades).


Which is now in action figure form.

Drinking temperature?

Erm, yeah, you can drink boiling oil without harming your lips if you do i right.

It doesnae matter.

However, if you're making coffee, it's always water first, if you put the milk in first, the granules don't dissolve, and they float around at the top.


Coffee = water first

It's not tea without tea, is it? Otherwise you've got a cup of hot water and milk. Yummy.

Why don't we all just have a nice glass of water?