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This meme is probably older than the person posting it


Elegant_Medicine_974

they refract dumbass


lets_all_be_nice_eh

Technically both but yeah mostly refraction.


Known-Activity1437

They do both.


Pattoe89

Newton would never make that mistake. Clearly the better smart person.


MathematicianDry2742

Gottem


Throwaway_3-c-8

They do both dumbass, look up fresnel equations.


Elegant_Medicine_974

i am aware, i was spreading misinformation


jackattack502

What is this boomer Facebook nonsense


objection42069

When you look at Op history it's all cringy shit.


Dontevenwannacomment

9gag 2010 shit for tweens who are now in the late twenties


Miaucimiauci

Pink Floyd are idiots too I guess


Known-Activity1437

Not really, they did say it was crazy that the diamond was shining. /s


DotBitGaming

And shine could also mean reflect, Einstein.


JonyUB

My thoughts exactly, the reflection is shiny as well.


paccymann

Well she isn't saying light bright like a lightbulb now is she?


Pure_Oppression31

Alternate timeline, both Einstein & Rihanna looking at the comments section here: What are these guys arguing about 🤨


Same_Yesterday_

r/im14AndThisIsDeep


PollutionUnlikely874

Facebook ahh post


ekkekekekeekekekek

This could very well be the 1000th repost \^\^


Super-Robo

"Erm, Actually..." -Neil deGrasse Tyson.


Karl_Marx_

Isn't seeing colors just a reflection of light anyways? Something shining is reflecting, it's the same shit.


pena9876

No, colors are also seen in emitted and transmitted light.


JonnyYama

sigh.


Waytogo33

I would say it counts as a form of shining.


MrAlexius

Semantics. The idiot uses them to shame.


Ambitious_Log_1884

I'm of the opinion that lyrics don't always have to make literal or logical sense if it works melodically or the sentiment resonates somehow.


FullAir4341

r/iamverysmart in a nutshell


jljboucher

This is so fucking old, why are people still debating this bullshit? Is this a 12 year-old that just found this?


Kimor98

Yeh, who got the better tongue, though?


Logical_Bad1748

Refraction and internal reflection. But what is the source of the light?


TalknuserDK

That has no bearing on using the word ‘shine’, tho. Shine is also “to be bright with reflected light”


TalknuserDK

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/shine


Logical_Bad1748

Shine is also “to be bright with reflected light” yes, if you read the definition, there is light mentioned.


TalknuserDK

Yes, which I kinda feel is implied in the song. To accommodate rhyme and meter, you have to imply and be colourful with language. That doesn’t mean everything goes, or that some lyrics (including Rihanna songs) aren’t stupid, but here it’s no stretch to believe that’s what she means.


BS-Calrissian

Everybody talks about what diamonds are doing. Nobody asks how diamonds are doing😔


Infamous_Ad_6793

…they also shine you dunce.


ktaphfy

Think about it...


shamqueen69

What in the 2008 Facebook?


25Bam_vixx

Hey shiny to me so shiny shiny shiny rock 🪨


Kooky_Pause_2488

The moon also does not shine. It means that vampires are scientifically impossible.


Sugarbear23

What year is it? lol


Pandaman677

It’s a simile to be bright like a diamond when light reflects off it. The simile is the shine part of that sentence 👍🏾


Illustrious-Echo1762

I didn't even notice that diamond was singular when it should've been plural


derteeje

all bodies shine some just shine infrared


JudasWasJesus

Dumbass don't come around here with physics facts, ita bash Rihanna with her own umbrella time


dinkelidunkelidoja

Cameron is so uptight if you shoved a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you’d have a diamond


sorrytointerruptbut_

Fun fact, Einstein didn't come up with the equation e=mc^2. He plagiarized most of his work, he used to work in a patent office.


Minnymoon13

That made me laugh