https://xkcd.com/2886

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Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard.

    • loobkoob@kbin.social
      19·
      vor 10 Monaten

      After that, he says that energetic stellar-sized microwaves could also be the cause, though this is unlikely since microwaves typically are not stellar-sized and they do not float in space [citation needed].

      I don’t know why but that [citation needed] caught me so off guard and made me laugh far too much

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        vor 10 Monaten

        I’m fairly sure microwaves float in space. I don’t think there are completely different laws of physics, just for microwaves. A microwave in a bistro however…

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        vor 10 Monaten

        I was reading one of his the other day and he got me with the same thing. It was:

        Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls [1]

        1. citation ^needed ↩︎