Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27398195-20170805013858/@comment-32311838-20170810195151

Well, people say "you're more than just the sum of your parts", talking about a person being more than just their experiences, what others think of them, etc. These are the "parts of them" that this is referring to, and the phrase is supposed to be inspirational, like "you can do whatever you want, despite your past".

Scientifically, however, it's the opposite; you'll never add up to the sum of your parts. I'm not talking mentally or socially, I mean physically. We're talking mass defect here. The gist of mass defect is that atomic particles weigh more apart than they do together. Therefore, this defect makes all atoms less than their parts. So, if you talk about atomic particles being someone's "parts", their parts will always be more than them as a whole.

But if you have no idea what that means, it's kinda funny from a philosophical standpoint. That and i think ruining people's hopes is kinda funny, cuz it sounds so uninspirational.