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·
    10 months ago

    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·
      10 months ago

      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·
      10 months ago

      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 ↩︎