Why did the Chicken cross the road? II (57)
Some movement in the historical unfolding of answers
Continuing with the history of the chicken question.
1700+
Jacques Charles (balloonist): I took chicken and cheese in my hydrogen balloon for a picnic, and we crossed many roads the high way. You want to cross roads, take a balloon and a chicken (1783).
Here's the image depicting Jacques Charles on a whimsical aerial adventure with a chicken and a picnic spread in his hydrogen balloon, soaring over the French countryside. I like the interpretation of cheese and chicken!
Lavoisier (chemistry, combustion): The chicken got tired to tax phlogiston and so went to the side of caloric (1781). It lost its head in the process, as I did.
Count Rumford: the chicken felt there was too much molecular motion this side of the road (it was too hot).
Charles Coulomb (charges): The chicken found another chicken on the other side of the road to be attractive (1790).
1800+
Amadeo Avogadro (moles): What? Just one chicken? Not a mole of? With such a trifle chicken it makes little difference on what side of the road it be.
Here's the illustration based on Amadeo Avogadro's concept. Some may remember my saying: an Avogadro’s number of Avocados makes the moon (you had to say it fast to pass my course). So, the actual mass of a mole of chicken would be about ten times the mass of the moon, so that for imagining a mole of chicken you would extend the chicken road into the sky and there make 10 moons of it.
Dalton: the chicken thought it would be in better proportions if combined with the other side of the road (1818).
Michael Faraday: By electrolysis, my chap. The chicken went across the road by electric dissolution and re-deposition. That’s why it’s now so shiny.
Charles Darwin: The chicken evolved to the other side (1863). On this side there are only fossils left of the proto-chicken. But they already point to the modern rooster on the other side of the road with senseless feathers to behold.
Here is the image of Charles Darwin by the road, depicting the evolution of chickens from fossils to a modern rooster.
Gregor Mendel (inheritance law): In the name of the lord, it was rather like this: one red chicken was born this side of the road, a white one on the other. Unfortunately, two pink ones were born in the middle of the busy road, and are no more (1865). Such are the laws of the lord of chicken crossings.
Lord Kelvin (absolute temperature): I think the road actually starts back quite a bit and no chicken would cross there. Every waterfall and chicken would be frozen.
Heinrich Hertz (frequency): It felt like shifting its frequency to the other side.
Here's the illustration based on Heinrich Hertz's interpretation of why the chicken crossed the road, featuring the chicken shifting its frequency. The use of color transition adds a visually engaging element to depict the concept.
Johann Balmer (spectra): For me the chicken crossed the road when I saw that spectra can be presented by a formula as discrete energy levels. You can envision a chicken hopping on these ladder rungs and emit light.
Marie Curie: The chicken crossed the road to get away from the heat of radium. But there it ran into polonium and lost its feathers to radiation.𓆤 𓆤 𓆤 𓆤 𓆤 𓆤 𓆤 𓆤 𓆤