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we definitely need a periodic table of periodic tables

• AareyBaba 3y ago
  but would it contain itself ?
  • kortex 3y ago
    Obviously. It'd be one of the tables known to Harvard. Just leave enough room for the ones to be discovered.
    • glompers 3y ago
      Every discovered table would contain items known to the state of California to be oncogenic.
    • nealabq 3y ago
      This'd make a nice lyric. If only "Harvard" rhymed with "discovered".
      • SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
        With the right accent, they rhyme.
    • scubbo 3y ago
      > one of the tables known to Harvard This has the cadence of a reference, but Google didn't help me. Am I missing something?
      • hangsi 3y ago
        It's from The Elements, by Tom Lehrer (the final lyric of the song). https://youtu.be/qyNkrlwKs7c https://youtu.be/qyNkrlwKs7c
        • scubbo 3y ago
          Thank you!
  • nealabq 3y ago
    you're suggesting a periodic table of all periodic tables that do not contain themselves. sounds doable.
  • LeonB 3y ago
    If it is a periodic table of all periodic tables then yes it would contain itself. Obviously. If it was a periodic table of all periodic tables except those that contain itself then it would only contain itself if it does not contain itself, I mean it would not contain itself if it does contain itself, I mean, goddam it Bertrand Russell, how did you find me here? I signed up to Hacker News hoping to escape you once and for all! -Gottlob Frege
• theodoregray 3y ago
  https://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php https://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php
  • croisillon 3y ago
    oh! <3