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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
    42·
    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
      23·
      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…

        • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          If you want to get pedantic, as far as photons are concerned, photons don’t exist. At C time dilation hits infinity, while length contraction approaches zero. Therefore photons travel zero distance and experience zero time. Therefore, from a photon’s perspective, they don’t exist!

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Bistromath was such a beautifully strange concept for a ship. I freaking love SEP fields the most from that book.

        • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          The combination of the infinite improbability drive leaking, and the SEP (somebody else’s problem) field is amazing. It provides an in-universe explanation for the various weird and unlikely things that happen.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      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 ↩︎