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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

A thermometer is just a speedometer for atoms.

[–] FuglyDuck 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wigglemeter. For atoms. That wiggle.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Atoms don't jiggle, jiggle, they move But they do wiggle, wiggle, fo sho!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Music is a pattern of wiggling air. Color is just a frequency of wiggling because all light is wiggling, but not a pattern of frequencies. I think it would be more congruent is the statement were "movies are just the wiggling of the electromagnetic field".

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Disclaimer: I am not technically a physicist.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not all colors are just a single frequency. Like, magenta can only exist as a sum of red and blue light. So colors are also patterns of wiggling

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I can't tell you how pleasing it is to see this take instead of the usual "magenta isn't real" bit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Seriously. I'm tired of those goons parroting the usual magenda.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

If magenta isn't real, then white isn't real either lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No color is 'real'. Only frequencies are real. But colors are real in our minds, just as sound is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

None of the human senses are real. It's all just our brains trying to make sense of the limited information we can get

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that why The Wiggles are both colourful and musical?

[–] not_woody_shaw 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hot potato hot potato

[–] Carvex 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh oh oh Amadeus

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fruit salad, yummy yummy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Toot toot, chugga chugga, Big Red Car

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Computer softwares are just fancy electron controller

[–] cm0002 3 points 8 months ago

Computer softwares are just fancy ~~electron~~wiggle controller

Ftfy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Matter is just wiggles until you perceive it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

And when you finally perceive it, it's gone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In theory, it should be possible to using twerking as an instrument.

[–] genie 1 points 8 months ago

Is mayonnaise an instrument?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Thereby, LMFAO was proved to be the best musicians ever. QED.

“Wiggle wiggle wiggle, yeah.”

[–] blubton 5 points 8 months ago

One of Bob Dylans greatest achievement was understanding the importance of the Wiggle in music and he has incorporated it into many of his songs, most notably in his magnum opus, "Wiggle Wiggle" from 1990. Experts and scientists are still in disagreement as to whether or not the song "Wilbury Twist", from a band Dylan was in, is the greatest song of all time, but they agree that, as James Joyce noted, "the Wiggle is strong in that one."

Because of these songs Bob Dylan is the only songwriter in history to have been rewarded the Nobel prize for the literature. In his speech after receiving the prize Dylan could not stop talking about Moby Dick. Personally I think the genius that is Bob Dylan used Moby Dick as an inspiration for his music because the movement of the whale when swimming is a Wiggle: with this speech he once more showed the world that the Wiggle is what "keeps music moving forward".

Ah, the whale! What a beautiful metaphor for music! Oh man! Admire and model thyself after the whale!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Get wiggle wit it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Na Na Na Na Na Na—ow my blood pressure!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

"You are only coming through in waves" - Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb

[–] Num10ck 1 points 8 months ago

massage my tape heads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I want you to look at all of those WIGGLES!

[–] FuglyDuck 1 points 8 months ago

pretty sure this lady was my art teacher.

who once said to me. "I think it's time you accept you have no talent for art." (Yeah lady, I knew that already. It's not like I chose to be there. still you probably shouldn't say that to a fifth grader.... even if that clay mask was truly atrocious..)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

What's non wiggling light?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Light as it percieves itself

[–] genie 2 points 8 months ago

The same light but in it's particle era