- cross-posted to:
- space@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- space@lemmy.world
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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!”
I appreciate the origin story being included in this cliché, cuz it got repeated so often on Reddit that people seemed to forget it was said by a parody of an obnoxious heartless bureaucrat and repeat the phrase without irony.
You know, you are technically correct.
Which is a kind of correct.
What kind we’ll never know.