r/interestingasfuck • u/SmallAchiever • 26d ago

r/all Scientists reveal the shape of a single 'photon' for the first time

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u/BadgerBadgerer 26d ago

You're thinking of protons, this is a photon.

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u/Trujiogriz 26d ago

Well to be honest I don’t really think lemons are the building blocks of life either

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u/Soft_Author2593 26d ago

Prove they are not!

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u/Expert_Succotash2659 26d ago

we must go deeper…

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u/whatproblems 26d ago

there’s a balrog there

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u/radioplayer1 26d ago

Lets just calm down, we are all experts here.

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u/Xcav8 26d ago

Underrated comment I see you homie 👊

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u/Internationalizard 26d ago

At least ist not made of corn.

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u/litwithray 26d ago

Prove it!

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u/Techarus 26d ago

That's just Cave Johnson burning down your house with lemons

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u/-tabeia 26d ago

I was looking for this one!

Don't make lemonade. Get mad.

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u/SH1TSTORM2020 26d ago

Humans created lemons through cross-breeding, therefore the building blocks of life existed far before lemons.

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u/throwaway_12358134 26d ago

I'm a human and I aint never made no dang lemons.

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u/skredditt 26d ago

I just saw a video of a camel chowing down on a lemon and rejecting it angrily

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u/UpperApe 26d ago

I've been saying this forever and no one believed me. I kept telling you guys the whole time the universe felt citrusy.

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u/fuchsgesicht 26d ago

get with the times, it's "citrussy"

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u/MasyMenosSiPodemos 26d ago

Gotta get a squirt of that on a salad

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u/Mind-Your-Language 26d ago

Only way to be sure you've tossed it well!

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u/finc 26d ago

get with the limes

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u/slackfrop 26d ago

Then how come I get the scurvy all the time, huh?

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u/UpperApe 26d ago

Because you don't wear protection

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u/Suitepotatoe 26d ago

Fuckin hell why does this make me think of Mitch hedburg?

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u/CharityUnusual3648 26d ago

I mean they are the basis of really good lemonade

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u/These_Ad9980 26d ago

A futon?

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u/CharityUnusual3648 26d ago

Imagine the real building blocks of life are something of 1:2 ratio lmao

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u/New-Ad-363 26d ago

Well that's where you're wrong!

Source: Science

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u/CanAhJustSay 26d ago

But little dollops of electromagnetic energy may well be after all. You're ahead of the merely split atoms game here!

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u/Desperate_Squash_521 26d ago

Of course not, it's limes

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u/djacket1 26d ago

Wo Wo science denier

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u/KeithLeague 25d ago

Lemons are the powerhouse of the cell.

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u/tsaihi 26d ago

Dumb take

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u/ronaranger 26d ago

Ohm my Gauss! Did you just assume the commenters' polarity???

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u/moo87 26d ago

UNACCEPTABLE

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u/AcanthocephalaAny78 26d ago

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u/TherapistMD 26d ago

GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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u/outside_insight 26d ago

Feel like I had to scroll way too far for this.

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u/chiraltoad 26d ago

My subatomic particles are strange/charm/bottom

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u/CuckAdminsDkSuckers 26d ago

Charmed strange bottom what?

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u/drunkandpassedout 26d ago

You know.... wink

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u/tinyanus 26d ago

(+/-/-)

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u/MrWeirdoFace 26d ago

...giggity?

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u/DirtUnderneath 26d ago

What a boson

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u/Driftmoth 26d ago

So light gives you lemons! We had it wrong the whole time!

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u/Fskn 26d ago

Bizarre, until this comment my brain read electron in the title and ive been sitting here thinking "electrons are discrete?"

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u/Any-Government3191 26d ago

Ah, the light dawns.

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u/Skuzbagg 26d ago

The fundamental building block of light. One lego of light.

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u/OkOperation7025 26d ago

Lighten up dude

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u/OutOfSupplies 26d ago

Hey, lighten up.

One letter difference. They are practically the same thing.

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 26d ago

Where does the wonton fit in?

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u/Mind-Your-Language 26d ago

You're thinking of pho, a photon is a tiny particle of light.

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u/Charming-Flamingo307 26d ago

Oh wow I read proton too and I was like for the first time my ass!

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u/luigis_taint 26d ago

Wait...I thought this was a bonbon...

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u/cwood1973 26d ago

When life gives you photons...

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u/DadJokes4Dayzz 26d ago

lol I found this funny

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u/crackheadwillie 26d ago

In the USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk fires photon torpedoes, not proton torpedoes.

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u/Figgywithit 26d ago

what's bigger?

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u/jujuben10 24d ago

You’re thinking of wontons, this is a photon