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xkcd #2886: Fast Radio Bursts (imgs.xkcd.com)

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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.

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[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

https://explainxkcd.com/2886

[-] loobkoob@kbin.social 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.world 20 points 8 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...

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Microwaves travel through space at the speed of light because they are photons

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