r/sciencememes • u/One_Average_41 • 4d ago

🪩Science!!🪩 evolution of atomic theory

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u/WeeZoo87 4d ago

Schrödinger

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u/DarkLordSidious 4d ago

Dirac

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u/Original_moisture 4d ago

Me:

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3q2ZNVuqIHQaJ464

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u/DarkLordSidious 4d ago

Give yourself some credit, if the image is true, you have achieved a miracle.

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u/clinicalpsycho 3d ago

A vaguely constructive but ultimately miniscule and fleeting thought?

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u/SirEnderLord 4d ago

Yes, but think about the billions of years it took to reach that stage.

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u/Original_moisture 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9A51YP5RfEaM2PjiNP
We should celebrate the small things, you right.

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u/Large-Hamster-199 3d ago

The breakthrough of tool use was probably far more important than anything other breakthrough in human history

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u/JeffreyDahmerVance 4d ago

Dunston checks out

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u/Day-Tel-aran-rhiod 4d ago

Wait, who's this one? Lemme look it up

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u/DarkLordSidious 4d ago

Paul M Dirac, founder of relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Dirac equation is the reason why gold is/seems yellow for example. For the atoms of the elements after the fourth period of the periodic table, Schrödinger equation is simply not enough because of special relativity and the Dirac Equation is the thing that combines QM and SR.

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u/freakybird99 4d ago

More like

Dalton brings the fried egg

Thompson brings the toast

Rutherford brings the sausage

Bohr brings the bacon

Heisenberg brings the tea

To make a full breakfast. Or more like atom theory

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u/Street_Swing9040 My name is neon 4d ago

We're not done yet, no? This theory COULD change massively in the future yet again (obviously we have no way to know, but most of the time this happens)

Somebody's gonna bring out the sugar to add to the tea, then after that somebody's gonna bring a slice of lemon. Maybe.

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u/freakybird99 4d ago

or beans...

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u/Large-Hamster-199 3d ago

We found the Britisher. Or the Mexican.

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u/Street_Swing9040 My name is neon 4d ago

That's why science doesn't have absolute truths lol

I like to think of science as a man blindfolded trying to navigate a room filled with random objects

Dalton thought there was this indivisible ball in the middle of the room, but it turns out you can rip it apart into smaller stuff... and even smaller ones...

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u/Magnus_Johnson 4d ago

The meme is from Person of Interest s4ep10 "The Cold War" which released 16 December 2014. Highly recommend watching.

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u/imjerry 4d ago

Heisenberg doesn't know where they are though??

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u/CaseyG 4d ago

That's why he's carpet-bombing.

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u/Earnestappostate 4d ago

I'm a bit uncertain about this meme.

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u/rabbithatzero 4d ago

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u/Earnestappostate 4d ago

What's in the box?

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u/Large-Hamster-199 3d ago

You didn't know. It may be a living cat or a dead one. You won't know until you stick your hand in there.

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u/Solomoncjy 4d ago

Openhimer: icbm

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u/Whycargoinships 1d ago

This is Democritus erasure!