xkcd #2886: Fast Radio Bursts
xkcd #2886: Fast Radio Bursts
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11240598
xkcd #2886: Fast Radio Bursts
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Dr. Petroff has also shown that the Higgs boson signal was actually sparks from someone microwaving grapes, the EHT black hole photo was a frozen bagel someone left in too long, and the LIGO detection was just someone slamming the microwave door too hard.
I think I found that Petroff article if anyone is interested: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1504.02165
And they knew it was terrestrial in origin, because only one dish picked it up, whereas if it was was of outerstellar origin, multiple sites would have received it.
For years I thought this settled the source of FRBs, from the headlines
WOW!
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Btw, using the microwave to create plasma balls.