So You Are A Photon?

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So You Are A Photon?

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The perfect physics joke doesn't exi—

This SpongeBob meme brilliantly captures the mind-bending reality of light speed physics! The blue character is trying to wrap his head around special relativity while Patrick just casually drops the ultimate punchline: their relative speed is 'c' (the speed of light constant).

No matter how fast you're moving toward a light beam, you'll always measure its speed as exactly 299,792,458 m/s. This counterintuitive fact is what makes Einstein's relativity so wild - light speed is the universal speed limit that doesn't play by our intuitive rules. Time and space literally warp to maintain this constant!

Patrick's deadpan "c" answer is probably the most sophisticated physics joke ever delivered by a starfish.

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