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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a single married neutron stars! Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | The comic depicts an often unheard explanation of why {{w|gold}} is a common {{w|wedding ring}} material; that humans chose it due to its symbolism in reference to its creation. Gold, as the comic states, is most commonly created in the merge of {{w|neutron star}}s; something which could be seen as a "marriage". However, it's likely that the original use of gold in wedding rings was before the discovery of how it was created {{citation needed}}, thus creating the joke of the comic. | |
− | Wedding receptions sometimes have a ''theme'', which is used to style the decorations and activities of the party. If the couple has a shared interest in something in popular culture (especially if this is how they met), they might use that as the theme. | + | Wedding receptions sometimes have a ''theme'', which is used to style the decorations and activities of the party. If the couple has a shared interest in something in popular culture (especially if this is how they met), they might use that as the theme. {{Megan}} suggests that "Binary Neutron Star Merger" would be a fun theme; this would probably only be true for astronomers or cosmologists{{citation needed}}. {{Cueball}} adds that an activity at such a wedding would be ejecting the bouguet at relativistic speeds; this is a reference to the traditional activity of the bride throwing her bouquet into the crowd, and whoever catches it is predicted to be the next to get married. The energy of neutron stars causes material to be ejected at a high fraction of the speed of light, giving them enormous amounts of energy based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity. If you caught such a bouquet you would be destroyed by the energy, so everyone tries not to catch it. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
+ | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | :[Cueball holding | + | :[Cueball holding sparkling (likely gold) (also likely wedding) ring] |
:Cueball: It kinda makes sense that we use gold for wedding rings. | :Cueball: It kinda makes sense that we use gold for wedding rings. | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
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