First for the first time in my life!!Hello cat people around the world! Due to a collaborative effort including me and the physics professor Prof. Mewliard at the Purrvard University, we have come up with a new theory for the reason cats can get into such small places!! Here it is: We have seen that atoms are 99.999999999999% empty space. (To put that in context, if the atom were the size of a football pitch, the nucleus would be the size of a marble, and the electrons would be flies buzzing around the edges.) We have, through the most powerful electron microscopes available at Purrvard, discovered that cats can actually compress the atoms in their bodies and decrease the empty space. Cats are actually much longer than is made out, as in a neutral state they are actually 49% empty space. This is how they stretch themselves out to twice their length in order to take in more sunlight (Recall the Calvin and Hobbes strip in which Hobbes points out: “Tigers’ tummies are solar cells.” This has been extrapolated through Purrvard to include all species in the Felis family.) This is also the cause of the ‘Longcat’ meme. Through a simple calculation, we calculate that if a cat were to compress so to eliminate all empty space, it would occupy a size of about 5 cubic NANOMETRES!! Unfortunately, a cat doing so would most likely cause it to collapse into a ‘cat hole’, a mass so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape its gravity. A big thank you to everyone who collaborated on this with Mewliard and me. This includes Purrvard math professor Whiskertash, for scaling, science professor Stannardpaw, for the solar cell biology, and astronomy professor Fluffian, for the notes on cat holes.
First for the first time in my life!!Hello cat people around the world! Due to a collaborative effort including me and the physics professor Prof. Mewliard at the Purrvard University, we have come up with a new theory for the reason cats can get into such small places!! Here it is: We have seen that atoms are 99.999999999999% empty space. (To put that in context, if the atom were the size of a football pitch, the nucleus would be the size of a marble, and the electrons would be flies buzzing around the edges.) We have, through the most powerful electron microscopes available at Purrvard, discovered that cats can actually compress the atoms in their bodies and decrease the empty space. Cats are actually much longer than is made out, as in a neutral state they are actually 49% empty space. This is how they stretch themselves out to twice their length in order to take in more sunlight (Recall the Calvin and Hobbes strip in which Hobbes points out: “Tigers’ tummies are solar cells.” This has been extrapolated through Purrvard to include all species in the Felis family.) This is also the cause of the ‘Longcat’ meme. Through a simple calculation, we calculate that if a cat were to compress so to eliminate all empty space, it would occupy a size of about 5 cubic NANOMETRES!! Unfortunately, a cat doing so would most likely cause it to collapse into a ‘cat hole’, a mass so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape its gravity. A big thank you to everyone who collaborated on this with Mewliard and me. This includes Purrvard math professor Whiskertash, for scaling, science professor Stannardpaw, for the solar cell biology, and astronomy professor Fluffian, for the notes on cat holes.