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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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[–] simin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the three body problem being one of my favorite scifi until it was kinda solved a couple years ago

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

All is relative. All are right. Or wrong. We are orbiting galactic center.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surly the sun is big wnough that the point actually being orbited is still within the sun?

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For our solar system: mostly. But if we lived in a binary star system, the distinction would be much more obvious.

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[–] Strayce 5 points 1 year ago

Fallacy fallacy taken to its logical conclusion.

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago
[–] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the common ground the fact both rotate around the super massive blackhole at the center of our galaxy?

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