Pick A Side Babe!

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Pick A Side Babe!

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The eternal physics debate that tears relationships apart! On one side, we've got the "light is so fast" crowd celebrating the 299,792,458 meters per second speed demon of the universe. On the other, the contrarians arguing "light is slow" because it takes a whole 8 minutes to reach us from the Sun and billions of years from distant galaxies.

Meanwhile, the chaotic neutral in the corner is just like "I don't care" because they're too busy wondering why we're all arguing about the speed of light at a dinner party. The bell curve of physics opinions perfectly captures how the extremely casual and extremely educated somehow end up with the same dismissive attitude while the passionate middle-grounders are having an existential crisis.

The true galaxy brain move? Realizing both sides are right - light is both the fastest thing we know AND frustratingly slow for interstellar travel. Einstein's just watching this meme from the afterlife, sipping cosmic tea.

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