Accurate To How Many Decimal Places?

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Accurate To How Many Decimal Places?

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The smuggest cat in physics just compared CERN scientists to a waffle! Particle physicists spend billions on the Large Hadron Collider to measure fundamental particles with mind-boggling precision, while this feline thinks they're just as flat and full of holes as that breakfast item. The top quark (the heaviest known elementary particle) and Higgs boson (the particle that gives others mass) represent some of humanity's greatest scientific achievements—measured to ridiculous decimal places. Meanwhile, the cat's sitting there with that self-satisfied grin like "your multi-billion dollar experiment is basically breakfast food." Pure scientific shade from a species that still can't open their own food cans.

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