Recalibration: Making President Coolidge turn slightly and reveal a little more of himself again.
Atomic piles: Something that no amount of Preparation H will ever be able to deal with.
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Enriched uranium: Giving a radioactive element all your money.
Nuclear reactor: Someone who is totally fed up with hearing “Noo-cyuh-ler.”
Critical Mass: an extremely significant religious ritual in the Roman Catholic church.
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Cyclotron: Watching a cheesy Eighties Disney sf movie repeatedly.
Nucleus: What Brandine needed when her first hillbilly husband/brother/cousin passed on.
Coronavirus: When the Sun catches a bad cold
stellarator: someone offering their opinion of a performance from Streetcar Named Desire
Ascending or Descending Sequences Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do. . . Do-Ti-La-So-Fa-Mi-Re-Do
clone: (noun) a performer of pantomime, usually wearing an outlandish costume, wig, and excessive makeup so as to create exaggerated facial features, especially the eyes, the nose, and the mouth/lips.
(verb) to perform pantomime in such a manner.
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Spacetime: When the astronaut is scheduled to begin her EVA.
Continuum: go ahead, renew those subscriptions.
Accretion disk: Socrates’s back is out again!
General Relativity: When the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is your third cousin once removed.
resonant: a plastic insect
Event horizon: Planning interval for a big wedding.
singularity: lack of inclination to partner with a significant-other
Wormhole: I knew something was wrong with that apple.
Einstein–Rosen bridge: How you travel from the City of Einstein to the Village of Rosen without getting your feet wet.