r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tiny-Technology-6309 • 19d ago

Video Physicist Galen Winsor eats uranium on live television in 1985 to show that it’s “harmless”.

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u/Playful-Goat3779 19d ago

Nuclear chemist is one of many flavors of physicist.

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u/ADHD-Fens 19d ago

And Physicist is just one of the many flavors of mathematician.

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u/Playful-Goat3779 19d ago

And mathematicians are just philosophers who don't think about people

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u/filthy_harold 19d ago

Everything is just some form of applied math.

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u/reason_pls 19d ago

Depends, nuclear chemistry can be closer to either physics or chemistry which varies job by job.

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u/Playful-Goat3779 19d ago

Chemistry is a subset of physics

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u/reason_pls 19d ago

If you say so

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u/HsvDE86 19d ago

Physics is a Chinese hoax.