Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Angstrom bleeding.conf

👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather alarming, and wonderfully specific, concept of…

“angstrom bleeding,

..” (Let that sink in for a moment. Just... sink in.)

Now, ordinarily when you bleed, you mean a bit of your very being oozes out – sadly, usually resulting from some unfortunate bumping into things. But “angstrom bleeding" isn't about the fleshy stuff. Nope! It’s entirely within the wonderfully weird and frankly terrifying realm of… atomic diameters. Essentially, it describes what happens when the outermost shell of an exceptionally small, highly unstable particle – let's say, a hypothetical, ridiculously tiny positron for argument's sake - begins to... weep. Under extreme conditions—intense radiation bombardment, perhaps? A seriously unfortunate polka dot tuxedo?—the positron simply starts ejectively disgorging off its outer shell of negative charge. Individual angstrom-sized portions then essentially blead away , into the surrounding vacuum. "An ansatz, I know." (I'm kidding—it is a theoretical concept! But it sounds really dramatic and makes you want to picture it. It’s the equivalent of your own personal, miniature, existential implosion, if we're being generous.) The name comes from the angstrom, which is roughly the actual size of that ejected, little-by-little shell. You wouldn’t notice it, unless you had, admittedly,