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Principle of Uncertainty Egg Joke

This is a meme consisting of a screenshot of a social media post. The top text reads 'I surprise these eggs, they don't even know who is next.' placed above a photo of a green plastic egg carton with brown eggs arranged randomly in scattered slots, with many slots left empty, meaning there is no way to predict which egg will be used or picked next. The meme's title 'Principle of Uncertainty' is a pun referencing Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle from quantum physics, which states that you cannot know both the exact position and momentum of a particle at the same time, here applied to the unknowable order of the eggs. Below the egg photo, a comment from user Marco (@mtlnd) reads 'This is how serial killers are made 😂', sarcastically joking that the person who arranged the eggs to 'surprise' them by making their order of use unknown has the same playful, menacing mindset as a serial killer who toys with their victims. A small watermark reading 'Follow @Explorize' is present in the top right corner of the egg photo.
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This is how serial killers are made 😂

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I surprise these eggs , they don't even know who is next.

Overview

This is a meme consisting of a screenshot of a social media post. The top text reads 'I surprise these eggs, they don't even know who is next.' placed above a photo of a green plastic egg carton with brown eggs arranged randomly in scattered slots, with many slots left empty, meaning there is no way to predict which egg will be used or picked next. The meme's title 'Principle of Uncertainty' is a pun referencing Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle from quantum physics, which states that you cannot know both the exact position and momentum of a particle at the same time, here applied to the unknowable order of the eggs. Below the egg photo, a comment from user Marco (@mtlnd) reads 'This is how serial killers are made 😂', sarcastically joking that the person who arranged the eggs to 'surprise' them by making their order of use unknown has the same playful, menacing mindset as a serial killer who toys with their victims. A small watermark reading 'Follow @Explorize' is present in the top right corner of the egg photo.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted as content on the Twitter/X social media platform, then was reposted to the Reddit:Meme subreddit, listed as RSS feed content with the title 'Principle of uncertainty'. The joke went viral for its absurd dark humor and clever pun on the famous physics principle.

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