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xkcd #3275: Calibration Nobel

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We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3275/

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Oh right, it’s not that tachyons don’t exist it’s that those dudes at CERN were all like “bro we just picked up FTL travel, check it out lol”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon#History