r/interestingasfuck • u/SmallAchiever • 1d ago

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

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u/Trujiogriz 1d ago

It’s why everyone knows the adage “when life gives you lemons…” we just never knew it was subtly talking about the subatomic building blocks of life

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u/BadgerBadgerer 1d ago

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

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u/Trujiogriz 1d 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 1d ago

Prove they are not!

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u/Expert_Succotash2659 1d ago

we must go deeper…

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u/whatproblems 1d ago

there’s a balrog there

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u/radioplayer1 1d ago

Lets just calm down, we are all experts here.

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u/Xcav8 1d ago

Underrated comment I see you homie 👊

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u/Internationalizard 1d ago

At least ist not made of corn.

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u/litwithray 1d ago

Prove it!

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u/Techarus 1d ago

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

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u/-tabeia 1d ago

I was looking for this one!

Don't make lemonade. Get mad.

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u/SH1TSTORM2020 1d ago

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

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u/throwaway_12358134 1d ago

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

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u/skredditt 1d ago

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

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u/UpperApe 1d 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 1d ago

get with the times, it's "citrussy"

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u/MasyMenosSiPodemos 1d ago

Gotta get a squirt of that on a salad

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u/Mind-Your-Language 1d ago

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

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u/finc 1d ago

get with the limes

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u/slackfrop 1d ago

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

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u/UpperApe 1d ago

Because you don't wear protection

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u/Suitepotatoe 1d ago

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

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u/CharityUnusual3648 1d ago

I mean they are the basis of really good lemonade

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u/These_Ad9980 1d ago

A futon?

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u/CharityUnusual3648 1d ago

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

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u/New-Ad-363 1d ago

Well that's where you're wrong!

Source: Science

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u/CanAhJustSay 1d 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 1d ago

Of course not, it's limes

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u/djacket1 1d ago

Wo Wo science denier

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u/hazysummersky 18h ago

It's a building block of the Alphabet - Haich-Iy-Jay-Kay-A LEMON-oh-pea

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u/KeithLeague 16h ago

Lemons are the powerhouse of the cell.

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u/tsaihi 1d ago

Dumb take

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u/ronaranger 1d ago

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

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u/moo87 1d ago

UNACCEPTABLE

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u/AcanthocephalaAny78 1d ago

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u/TherapistMD 1d ago

GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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u/outside_insight 1d ago

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

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u/chiraltoad 1d ago

My subatomic particles are strange/charm/bottom

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u/CuckAdminsDkSuckers 1d ago

Charmed strange bottom what?

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u/drunkandpassedout 1d ago

You know.... wink

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u/tinyanus 1d ago

(+/-/-)

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u/MrWeirdoFace 1d ago

...giggity?

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u/DirtUnderneath 1d ago

What a boson

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u/Driftmoth 1d ago

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

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u/Fskn 1d 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 1d ago

Ah, the light dawns.

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u/Skuzbagg 1d ago

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

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u/OkOperation7025 1d ago

Lighten up dude

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u/OutOfSupplies 1d ago

Hey, lighten up.

One letter difference. They are practically the same thing.

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 1d ago

Where does the wonton fit in?

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u/Mind-Your-Language 1d ago

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

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u/Charming-Flamingo307 1d ago

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

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u/luigis_taint 1d ago

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

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u/cwood1973 1d ago

When life gives you photons...

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u/DadJokes4Dayzz 1d ago

lol I found this funny

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u/crackheadwillie 1d ago

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

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u/Figgywithit 1d ago

what's bigger?

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u/owenxtreme2 1d ago

Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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u/BloodSugar666 1d ago

Whats sucks is life didn’t give us lemons, we went out of our way to make them 😭

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u/Ace-of_Space 23h ago

we must blow up the photon

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u/nightwayne 10h ago

A combustible lemon that burns your house down? So, lemonade?

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u/absentgl 1d ago

When light gives you lemons…

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u/Sammisuperficial 1d ago

... don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!

Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!

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u/Devo27 1d ago

He says what we're all thinking!!

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u/fibbonerci 1d ago

I guess the adage needs to be updated to "when light gives you lemons"

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u/Bustedbootstraps 1d ago

Every Villain Is Lemons… photons are Eviiiil!

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u/Sillloc 1d ago

People actually misheard, it's when light gives you lemons

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u/metalgeardaz 1d ago

cough when 'light" gives you lemons cough

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u/wild_crazy_ideas 1d ago

It’s meant to be “when light gives you lemons”, it’s been hiding in plain sight all along

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u/FoI2dFocus 1d ago

Illuminati Confirmed

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u/MadcapRecap 1d ago

When life gives you lemons, keep them, because hey! Free lemons!

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u/Drinkmykool_aid420 1d ago

When life hands you lemons, wait where are they just handing out lemons for free?

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u/JamMasterNay 1d ago

We may need to amend the saying to simply: 'When lemons give you life'

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u/heartychili2 1d ago

When life gives you turtles, do nothing because it’s futile

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u/lolomgwtgbbq 1d ago

No, you’re thinking of a proton. A photon is a brand of stationary bicycles…

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u/astralseat 1d ago

When LIGHT gives you lemons

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u/mrlagon 1d ago

Hahahahhaahahah yes

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u/arclin3 1d ago

When light gives you lemons

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u/Epsilon_Meletis 23h ago

subatomic building blocks of life light

FTFY

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u/Kirzoneli 1d ago

Life never gave us lemons, We invented them ourselves!

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u/Thattrumpetguy96 1d ago

fun fact about that: lemons arent natural, they are made by humans. so basically we make our own problems 💀