The meme plays on Newton's famous prism experiment where he discovered white light contains all colors of the spectrum. In this historically inaccurate but hilarious twist, Newton appears to be creating a rainbow with his prism and immediately jumping to the most unscientific conclusion possible. Instead of his actual groundbreaking work on light dispersion, he's portrayed as discovering that "going outside is gay" because... rainbows. The absurd anachronism of applying modern slang to a 17th-century physicist is what makes this so ridiculously funny. Newton would be rolling in his grave fast enough to generate electricity if he knew his optics experiments were reduced to this.
Newton's Fabulous Discovery
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