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xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is this... an introductory course in relativity, disguised as a joke?

Am I accidentally learning something here?

Guys?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

xkcd

yes it is

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Not really, relativity plays no role here. It's classical Newtonian physics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

relativity plays no role here

I still count that as learning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I was more referring to the fact that xkcd's comics have a lot of science in them, rather than the specific type of science

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Relatively speaking, though…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

XKCD is basically all math jokes.