Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here...
Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here...
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Transition metals don't exist, everyone knows there are only 2 elements
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Come on bud, be a proper alloy!
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Found the cosmologist.
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Is that joke that on a cosmic level, it's mostly hydrogen and helium (?) so others get ignored, like how genders other than the usual 2 get ignored? If so, that's so smart and funny, wow.
Or is it something else that I'm not getting?
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Pretty much, the universe is hydrogen, helium, and rounding errors.
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Yep. Cosmologists work at the largest scale and often simplify regular matter down to hydrogen ("gas") and everything else ("metal").
So if you ever see a reference to the "metallicity" of a star, that can include the presence of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc... which chemists of course would never refer to as metals.
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No, there are more elements. But there are only two elements there is an infinite supply of in the universe, Hydrogen and Stupidity, and we're not sure about Hydrogen. /forgot whose joke this was
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The internet says it is an Einstein quote.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I am betting like most quotes attributed to him that it is made up though.
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This one's unproven. Given the quotability, I'm gonna say if he really did say it we'd know for sure.
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