Michael Phelps, not a man of science

This Washington Post article talks about reporters who asked Phelps a bunch of questions after he got his eighth gold medal. One of the reporters was from the Harvard Lampoon, and asked where he "stood on the scientific debate about whether light is a particle or a wave."

"I have no idea what to really comment on that," he said, and moved on.



You fool, the answer was both! Wave-particle duality! de Broglie would not have been happy to hear that. You've won more gold medals in one Olympics than many countries have in their entire Olympic history, congratulations. However, this doesn't mean you shouldn't know these things.

On top of your 12,000 calories of BLTs a day, I'm going to have to assign you some chemistry homework.

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Godspeed.


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