One of these nerds is not like the others, One of these geeks just doesn’t belong, Can you tell which nerd is not like the others By the time I finish my song?
Let me at 'em!!
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Tyson? Why not cause he’s an asshole? Are you aware that both Einstein and Hawkings were also assholes?
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Einstein and Hawking (no s) were giants of their field, published papers that turned all other accepted science on its head, and have basic physical phenomenon of the Universe named after them, but they were of surprisingly limited in their knowledge of other fields. Whereas NdT will expound on absolutely any topic with the complete certainty that he is a fucking expert, even if he only just now inferred the existence of the thing from the question he is presently being asked. He is a megabrain of galactic proportions, a fact he appreciates better than anyone else.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 years ago
But they weren’t pretentious know-it-alls on TV and YT
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I don’t like Tyson because I feel he preaches an inaccurate version of the scientific philosophy. So many times I hear him saying things along the lines of absolute certainty, because it’s SCIENCE.
Where, we of the true faith, preach: the evidence indicates that this is the most likely to be true, or at least, this model makes predictions about the world more reliably than any other we currently have.
Amen.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Don’t eat fissile cucumbers.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No, that knife isn’t made of atoms, that knife is made of pure solid quarks. That’s why it can cut atomic nuclei.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
I choose to believe it’s made of small atoms, the kind you get from firing a shrink ray at something.
androogee@midwest.social 2 years ago
They call me Johnny Smallatoms
parlaptie@feddit.org 2 years ago
We’re gonna need a community for comedy homicide for this. That last panel ruins it.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 2 years ago
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
That’s easy to explain, having cut a lot of cucumbers in my life. Since the actual nucleus of an atom is much smaller than the atom including its electrons itself, the probability of hitting the protons or neutrons is so small, that I’d need to live for a few thousand years and cut 1 cucumber per second nonstop, before this scenario happens even once. It is not impossible, just very improbable.
webpack@ani.social 2 years ago
(assuming your post isn’t a joke) it is impossible to cause a nuclear reaction by cutting cucumbers.
the biggest innacuracy in this comic is that as the panel zooms in on the cucumber atoms, the knife looks exactly the same. if it was realistic it would just be a bunch of metal atoms pushing aside a bunch of cucumber atoms, not a sharp knife slicing through individual atoms.
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 years ago
Maybe it’s not zooming in. Maybe the atoms of the cucumber are getting bigger! 😏
beetsnuami@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Well… that, and one nucleus splitting in half wouldn‘t start a chain reaction in a cucumber, and therefore not release a macroscopically noticeable amount of energy.
averyminya@beehaw.org 2 years ago
The Subtle Knife is definitely so sharp that it cuts through dimensions, so I think it would cut atoms.
So really that just means it’s not inaccurate, it’s just a very specific, fictional knife!
Rooskie91@discuss.online 2 years ago
Fission doesn’t happy because we cut atoms in half. Fission happens because we blast enriched uranium with neutrons, the uranium absorbs a neutron, gets too heavy, and falls apart.
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
That’s just one way to do it.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I know very little about physics and I’m pretty sure you could cut cucumbers with a knife until the end of time and you’ll never trigger a nuclear explosion.
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 2 years ago
Actually, it’s because cucumbers are so cool (c.f. cool as a cucumber) that they’re in a ground state. It’s actually endothermic to split their atoms so you don’t get a chain reaction.
Cutting hot vegetables, habernaros for example, is much more risky and adequate precautions should always be taken to avoid radioactivity contaminating sensitive regions of the body.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I thought the only option with cucumbers is to keep mashing them together until fusion, no?
Johanno@feddit.org 2 years ago
Ok if it is theoretically possible to cut atoms bay using metal knives then why didn’t ever a fission happen? I mean if you combine all knife cutting in the whole world since knives exist, the probability should be pretty high.
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
Well, it probably happened an infinite amount of times already. But the resulting cucumber-detonation just triggers a new Big Bang. We’re on the whatever-millionth reset now. Should end any day now. STOP CUTTING CUCUMBERS, SHEEPLE!!
allywilson@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I mean, this happened once: iaea.org/…/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-…
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 years ago
But what would you do with the sliced cucumbers of millenia?
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
Dunno. I guess growing them fast enough would also be a problem.
apocalypticat@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You’re assuming the blade would be thinner than the nucleus, at the very least.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 years ago
Someone let Einstein loose, we must admit that violence is on occasion the only recourse.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Okay, now explain bananas.
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
Well, that’s why we generally eat bananas without cutting. As everyone knows, bananas are slightly radioactive. This increases the danger when cutting them exponentially, so don’t do that.
Hirom@beehaw.org 2 years ago
The electromagnetic force from the atoms’ respective electron cloud probably help prevent atom get close to each other. And the strong nuclear force also help prevent atom from splitting.
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 years ago
You mean I’m just not cutting strong enough?
Soup@lemmy.cafe 2 years ago
Not with that attitude.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
You’re doing it wrong. The mouse just diced a cucumber really, really l, small.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Then he went on to make lemonade with strawberries and heavy water. Deuterium, you get me? Strawberry fusion lemonade.
portuga@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No I don’t get it. But I would like to. Is this one of those scenarios where three physicists walk into a bar, each one tells a joke but none of it are funny so no one gets it?
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The moment I wrote it, I was hearing it in the voice of Benny Safdie in his first scene as weirdo Edward Teller, in “Oppenheimer”.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 years ago
Is that what killed that girl at Panera a while back?
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And that’s how we got bubbles in beer.
Thteven@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m glad someone else remembers that movie.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 years ago
God, I saw it in the theater. That theater was almost completely empty.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 years ago
*chop “damn.” *chop “damn.” *cho -BOOM
Razzazzika@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That’s gotta be the sharpest knife in existence having a diameter of half an atom…
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Doesn’t have to be sharp. It could be extremely fast.
multifariace@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s a 4D knife.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
When I was a kid, I was legitimately afraid of this
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And that’s why you don’t see cooking mouse no more.
insufferableninja@lemdro.id 2 years ago
remind me of yahoo serious splitting a beer atom with a chisel in his shed. young einstein, what a fun movie
Assman@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Let me atom *
averyminya@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Sad to not see more comments about The Subtle Knife. This is a great meme for that concept!
Backlog3231@reddthat.com 2 years ago
That was a great series. I should reread it soon.
Clarity_daffodil@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Hawking, my guy, why have you forsaken us? 🥺 I believed in you
rain_worl@lemmy.world 2 years ago
knife shrinks
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Knives are also made of atoms
lugal@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Sure? How many? Because I have some atoms at home and need a new knife
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 years ago
At least 50
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 years ago
Call that a knife?
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Not this knife
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Atomception
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Some are smaller than others
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 years ago
They could be made of degenerate matter.