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[-] webpack@ani.social 46 points 2 months ago

(assuming your post isn't a joke) it is impossible to cause a nuclear reaction by cutting cucumbers.

the biggest innacuracy in this comic is that as the panel zooms in on the cucumber atoms, the knife looks exactly the same. if it was realistic it would just be a bunch of metal atoms pushing aside a bunch of cucumber atoms, not a sharp knife slicing through individual atoms.

[-] BennyInc@feddit.org 33 points 2 months ago

Bro, you should sharpen your knives.

[-] maniii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Won't this cause nicks and dulling as sudden heating and impact lead to both knives becoming extremely useless ?

Also replacing one of the knives with a sharpening rod, I can sort of suspend disbelief enough to believe it "possible".

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 19 points 2 months ago

Maybe it's not zooming in. Maybe the atoms of the cucumber are getting bigger! 😏

[-] beetsnuami@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago

Well… that, and one nucleus splitting in half wouldn‘t start a chain reaction in a cucumber, and therefore not release a macroscopically noticeable amount of energy.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

To put into perspective just how trivial it is, the actual amount of energy of splitting a single nucleus is on the order of picojoules. The shock from touching a doorknob is a few millijoules, literally millions of times more powerful.