There are no tricks, only treats, when you add science to your annual pumpkin-carving festivities. That’s why we at Symmetry created designs featuring spooky versions of important figures from the history of physics to adorn your Halloween gourds.
To make a physics jack-o’-lantern:
- Pick out a pumpkin and one of our five designs.
- Using printer settings, resize the design template to fit on your pumpkin.
- Print it out.
- Cut out the shaded sections from the print-out.
- Trace the cut out sections of the print-out onto your gourd.
- Carve.
Alternatively, you can use a ballpoint pen to poke through the paper along the outline of the template. Connect the dots on your pumpkin to mark where to carve.
Albert Frank-Einstein
It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s reciting the general theory of relativity!
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![Illustration of Albert Frank-Einstein Pumpkin](/sites/default/files/styles/2015_inset_one/public/images/standard/FINAL_Einstein_Inline.png?itok=jXsBaDT8)
Mummy Noether
Emmy Noether’s theorems underpin all of modern physics; that’s something we just can’t keep under wraps.
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![Illustration of Mummy Noether Pumpkin](/sites/default/files/styles/2015_inset_one/public/images/standard/FINAL_Noether_Inline.png?itok=OD73YmK1)
![Illustration of Paul Dirac-ula Pumpkin](/sites/default/files/styles/2015_inset_one/public/images/standard/FINAL_Dirac_Inline.png?itok=-t-mOEvO)
Scary Curie
Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in not one but two fields (chemistry and physics). Now that’s scary smart.
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![Illustration of Scary Curie Pumpkin](/sites/default/files/styles/2015_inset_one/public/images/standard/FINAL_Curie_Inline.png?itok=oFOsjrcq)
Werewolfgang Pauli
Theories like Wolfgang Pauli’s exclusion principle—which affirms that two identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state at the same time—come along only once in a blue moon.
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![Illustration of Werewolfgang Pauli Pumpkin](/sites/default/files/styles/2015_inset_one/public/images/standard/FINAL_Pauli_Inline.png?itok=8Q5fWLV5)