If less than five people did a certain thing, then is it not the case that five or more people did that thing? It depends on the thing.
That’s what I would reply to the question posed in this hilarious AskReddit thread: “PhD’s of Reddit: What is a dumbed down summary of your thesis?”
There are some real gems in there. Some of them actually managed to teach me something:
Making new magnets from old magnets because we’re running out of magnets.
– IAmAHiggsBoson
People trying meditation for the first time get aroused.
– PainMatrix
Others, less so:
Sand washes away. Don’t build important stuff on it.
– zoidy-1
The funniest ones (to me) are the ones that subtly convey (by implicature or by presupposition, it appears) that their dissertation was a disaster, pointless, inconclusive, etc.
You can make antimatter move in strange ways if you set your equipment up wrong.
– DrTBag
Does music express emotions or just elicit them? Read the next 200 pages to not find out.
– welldogmycats
People sometimes think about animals as if they’re people. People like those animals a little more than regular animals. Except when they don’t. I can’t believe they gave me a PhD.
– too_many_mangos
Be sure to also check out lol my thesis for more hilarity.
Bonus summary: If less than five people did a certain thing, then is it possible that no one did that thing? It still depends on the thing.