Matter Is Composed Of Pudding

Matter Is Composed Of Pudding
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19th century physicists waking up and casually inventing wildly inaccurate atomic models before breakfast! J.J. Thomson's "plum pudding model" was literally just positive charge with electrons stuck in it like raisins in dessert. Imagine building your entire understanding of matter on a snack! "Hmm, this scone looks sciency, I'll base my groundbreaking theory on it." And yet these guys got Nobel Prizes while the rest of us can't even get credit for fixing the office printer.

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